The Blood Miracles

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The second novel from the author of the Baileys Prize-winning The Glorious Heresies.

Like all twenty-year-olds, Ryan Cusack is trying to get his head around who he is. This is not a good time for his boss to exploit his dual heritage by opening a new black market route from Italy to Ireland. It is certainly not a good time for his adored girlfriend to decide he's irreparably corrupted. And he really wishes he hadn't accidentally caught the eye of an ornery grandmother who fancies herself his saviour.

There may be a way clear of the chaos in the business proposals of music promoter Colm and in the attention of the charming, impulsive Natalie. But now that his boss's ambitions have rattled the city, Ryan is about to find out what he's made of, and it might be that chaos is in his blood.

(P)2017 John Murray Press

Critics Review

This summer I can wholeheartedly recommend Lisa McInerney's novel The Blood Miracles, the devastatingly brilliant follow-up to her prize-winning debut The Glorious Heresies. In my inexpert opinion, McInerney's hero Ryan Cusack is quickly becoming one of Irish fiction's iconic protagonists
Sally Rooney, Irish Times
If you like Trainspotting, Peaky Blinders, Guy Ritchie and Quentin Tarantino then this is a rackety, kinetic, hold-your-attention-at-gunpoint book
The Times
The narration is brisk and slick, the dialogue fizzing with acerbic wisecracking
Literary Review
Lisa McInerney is a writer busily combining the traditions of hardcore Irish crime writing with the kind of fast-talking foul-mouthed wit and gentle good humour that readers will recall from the work of Roddy Doyle, and producing popular state-of-the-nation novels as a consequence
Times Literary Supplement
An addictive read
Guardian
Trainspotting meets Goodfellas . . . McInerney writes with delicious irreverence and her fiction in this book has a fast, filmic quality
Evening Standard
McInerney writes with enviable verve, swagger and humour
Mail on Sunday
Delectable and vigorously entertaining
Irish Independent
Lively, entertaining, salty and funny
Irish Examiner
Vivid, compelling and moving
Observer
The plot's a slippery snake of dodgy deals and deadly double crosses, with a series of handbrake turns at the end. It's standard gangster stuff, spiked into originality by the chemical kick of McInerney's prose
The Spectator
A hard-edged, gritty novel with terrific tempo and good characterisation . . . McInerney is a pacy storyteller at the top of her game
Daily Express
Lisa McInerney is a preposterously gifted writer, Amis-like, almost Shakespearean, in her ability to riff, refresh and amuse
New Statesman
An exuberant noirish romp that also speaks of the sad fallout of a loveless childhood
Financial Times
An exuberant noirish romp that also speaks of a loveless childhood
Financial Times, Books of the Year

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