Thirst Trap

Maggie, Harley, and Róise have spent their twenties careering around the bars of Belfast with riotous abandon, the wine cheap and the memories priceless. However, the three of them used to be four; and now, one year on from a tragic accident, Maggie, Harley, and Róise are still shaken by the sudden death of their best friend Lydia. Struggling to process their loss and afraid to let go of the home and the life they shared together, the three women each find the nights becoming wilder and the days more full of regret. Maggie's anxiety has taken a turn for the worse since the death of her friend, and her ongoing situationship with an unreliable, emotionally unavailable woman plunges her further into uncertainty. Róise embarks on a slow, simmering flirtation with a work colleague, tempted but fearful at the idea that it could become more. And between blackout drinking and one-night-stands with strangers, Harley fills her time working as a hotel receptionist, poorly re-learning to play the piano, and sexually obsessing over their landlord. As Maggie, Harley, and Róise spiral into chaos, the memory of their last, worst fight with Lydia hangs heavy and unspoken over their heads. Their house is crumbling around them and the city that raised them seems full of ghosts, as the three of them try to piece themselves back together. Thirst Trap is a brilliant and beautiful page turner of a novel; a bittersweet, bitingly funny, at times painfully relatable story about the friendships that endure through the very best and the very worst of times.

Maggie, Harley, and Róise have spent their twenties careering around the bars of Belfast with riotous abandon, the wine cheap and the memories priceless. However, the three of them used to be four; and now, one year on from a tragic accident, Maggie, Harley, and Róise are still shaken by the sudden death of their best friend Lydia. Struggling to process their loss and afraid to let go of the home and the life they shared together, the three women each find the nights becoming wilder and the days more full of regret. Maggie's anxiety has taken a turn for the worse since the death of her friend, and her ongoing situationship with an unreliable, emotionally unavailable woman plunges her further into uncertainty. Róise embarks on a slow, simmering flirtation with a work colleague, tempted but fearful at the idea that it could become more. And between blackout drinking and one-night-stands with strangers, Harley fills her time working as a hotel receptionist, poorly re-learning to play the piano, and sexually obsessing over their landlord. As Maggie, Harley, and Róise spiral into chaos, the memory of their last, worst fight with Lydia hangs heavy and unspoken over their heads. Their house is crumbling around them and the city that raised them seems full of ghosts, as the three of them try to piece themselves back together. Thirst Trap is a brilliant and beautiful page turner of a novel; a bittersweet, bitingly funny, at times painfully relatable story about the friendships that endure through the very best and the very worst of times.

The International Bestseller 'Hilarious and gut-wrenching' - Alice Slater, author of Death of a Bookseller 'Think Dolly Alderton, but with the sharp edges of Eliza Clark' - Independent Belfast: three girls are living for the weekend, their wild friendship the only thing that matters. Harley: hurtling from club to club in a wild and blurry quest for meaning. Maggie: navigating a situationship with an unavailable woman, and, of course, therapy. Róise: only bothering to turn up to her boring office job due to an ill-advised crush on her boss. But the three of them used to be four. And now, one year on from a tragic accident that almost ripped them apart, Harley, Maggie and Róise still can't face up to any of it: to 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 Shortlisted for Newcomer of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards A Most Anticipated Novel of the Year - 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'

The International Bestseller 'Hilarious and gut-wrenching' - Alice Slater, author of Death of a Bookseller 'Think Dolly Alderton, but with the sharp edges of Eliza Clark' - Independent Belfast: three girls are living for the weekend, their wild friendship the only thing that matters. Harley: hurtling from club to club in a wild and blurry quest for meaning. Maggie: navigating a situationship with an unavailable woman, and, of course, therapy. Róise: only bothering to turn up to her boring office job due to an ill-advised crush on her boss. But the three of them used to be four. And now, one year on from a tragic accident that almost ripped them apart, Harley, Maggie and Róise still can't face up to any of it: to 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 Shortlisted for Newcomer of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards A Most Anticipated Novel of the Year - 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'