Thirst Trap

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**Shortlisted for Newcomer of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards**

'Hilarious and gut-wrenching' - Alice Slater, author of Death of a Bookseller

'Think Dolly Alderton, but with the sharp edges of Eliza Clark' - Independent

In a crumbling Belfast houseshare, three women are living for the weekend, their wild friendship the core of their lives.

Maggie: navigating the twin perils of therapy and a situationship with an unavailable woman.
Harley: careening from club to club, hookup to hookup, in a blurry quest for meaning.
Róise: about to turn thirty, her crush on her boss the only reason she still turns up to work.

But the three of them used to be four. And now, one year on from a tragic accident, Maggie, Róise and Harley still can’t face up to any of it: to the death of their best friend, adulthood, the future, and to each other.

'An emotional wild ride in all the best ways' - Dakota Johnson, TEATIME Book club

'Compulsively readable and brilliant on friendship and grief. I raced through it' - Daily Mail

'So funny, taut and complex' - Wendy Erskine, author of The Benefactors

'Like the literary love child of Miranda July and Carrie Fisher, transposed in Belfast - hilarious, smart and chaotic in the best way' - Louise Nealon, author of Snowflake

A Most-Anticipated Novel of 2025 - DAZED, Irish Times, RTÉ

Readers are raving about Thirst Trap:

'Made me laugh and cry in equal measure'
'Laugh-out-loud funny and deeply moving . . . I loved every page of it’
'Sharp, funny, and deeply relatable'
'This book is the moment'
'I mourned this being over. It’s sad and beautiful and real and messy. It’s perfect'

Critics Review

Hilarious and gut-wrenching
Alice Slater, author of Death of a Bookseller
It’s compulsively readable and brilliant on friendship and grief. I raced through it
Daily Mail
Think Dolly Alderton, but with the sharp edges of Eliza Clark . . . O’Hare has a true gift for a visceral simile, her sandpapery prose scribbling vivid pictures of messy pleasure that you can practically smell off the tequila-soaked page
The Independent
So funny, taut and complex
Wendy Erskine, author of The Benefactors
An absolute riot - funny, compassionate, observant and wise . . . O'Hare attends so closely, so wittily and so empathetically to every single one of these characters . . . enormously impressive and fun
Kevin Power, The Irish Times
Very funny . . . a little bit Dolly Alderton and a little bit Lena Dunham, with a wholly Irish soul
New York Times
Brilliant. The characters were so warm and real, I felt like I knew them. A beautiful look at friendship and transition, it was funny, bittersweet, and honest
Chloe Michelle Howarth, author of Sunburn
Raucous, sexy and f*cking hilarious. A heady mix of Michael Magee's Close to Home and Lena Dunham's Girls. Everybody should read this book.
Aimée Walsh, author of Exile
An emotional wild ride in all the best ways
Dakota Johnson, TEATIME Book club
An absolutely cracking read . . . Gráinne O’Hare has a keen eye, a sharp wit, pitch-perfect comic timing and a big heart, and spending time with her and her trio of female friends has all the raucous intimate pleasure of a big night out without any of the hangover. I loved it
Lucy Caldwell, author of These Days
A triumph. Gráinne O’Hare is like the literary love child of Miranda July and Carrie Fisher, transposed in Belfast - hilarious, smart and chaotic in the best way
Louise Nealon, author of Snowflake
Spiky, funny, cool, heartbreaking . . . There were so many turns of phrase I had to read again and again because they were so perfectly put. It’s a deeply fulfilling and tender read about the power of female friendship and of finding light in dark places. A dazzlingly assured novel
Emma Stonex, author of The Lamplighters
It’s one of those novels that you can’t believe is a debut. O’Hare is a writer to watch out for in 2025 and beyond
RTÉ
A rising star of the Belfast New Wave . . . this book is for anyone who has found themselves on the fraying end of a close friendship, appreciates comedy or experienced their twenties in a blur of high emotion
The Irish Post
High-velocity, hilarious, and rooted in the chaos and absolute commitment of female friendship. I love her work
Naomi Booth, author of raw content
Highly-relatable. A brilliant portrayal of grief — and of growing up. Written with humour, hope, and warmth
Irish Examiner
Gráinne O'Hare is the next big thing on the literary scene . . . Thirst Trap is a quintessential millennial coming of age story - and magic to read
The Mirror
A promising debut . . . The New Sobriety will have to wait—the party novel is not dead. At least in Ireland
Kirkus
Tenderly encompasses grief, friendship, relationships and self-destruction in a way that's funny, relatable and bittersweet
RTÉ, Books of the Year

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