The Blood Miracles

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What to expect

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

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