An exuberant noirish romp that also speaks of a loveless childhood
Financial Times, Books of the Year
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
... Read moreSally Rooney, Irish Times
An exuberant noirish romp that also speaks of the sad fallout of a loveless childhood
Financial Times
Lisa McInerney is a preposterously gifted writer, Amis-like, almost Shakespearean, in her ability to riff, refresh and amuse
New Statesman
A hard-edged, gritty novel with terrific tempo and good characterisation . . . McInerney is a pacy storyteller at the top of her game
Daily Express
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
Vivid, compelling and moving
Observer
Lively, entertaining, salty and funny
Irish Examiner
Delectable and vigorously entertaining
Irish Independent
McInerney writes with enviable verve, swagger and humour
Mail on Sunday
Trainspotting meets Goodfellas . . . McInerney writes with delicious irreverence and her fiction in this book has a fast, filmic quality
Evening Standard
An addictive read
Guardian
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
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
The narration is brisk and slick, the dialogue fizzing with acerbic wisecracking
Literary Review
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