One messy murder affects the lives of five misfits who exist
on the fringes of Ireland's post-crash society. Ryan is a fifteen-year-old drug
dealer desperate not to turn out like his alcoholic father Tony, whose
obsession with his unhinged next-door neighbour threatens to ruin him and his
family. Georgie is a prostitute whose willingness to feign a religious
conversion has dangerous repercussions, while Maureen, the accidental murderer,
has returned to Cork after forty years in exile to discover that Jimmy, the son
she was forced to give up years before, has grown into the most fearsome
gangster in the city. In seeking atonement for the murder and a multitude of
other perceived sins, Maureen threatens to destroy everything her son has
worked so hard for, while her actions risk bringing the intertwined lives of
the Irish underworld into the spotlight.
(https://www.amazon.ca/Glorious-Heresies-Longlisted-Baileys-Fiction-ebook/dp/B00NLJKMX2/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1460401419&sr=1-1&keywords=the+glorious+heresies).
The prize was established to recognize the literary
achievement of female writers. One of
the United Kingdom's most prestigious literary prizes, it is awarded annually
to a female author of any nationality for the best original full-length novel
written in English and published in the United Kingdom in the preceding year.
The longlist of 20 books was released on March 8: http://schatjesshelves.blogspot.ca/2016/03/longlist-for-2016-baileys-womens-prize.html.
The shortlist of 6 books was released on April 11: http://schatjesshelves.blogspot.ca/2016/04/shortlist-for-2016-baileys-womens-prize.html.
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