G790 Book Review of the glorious heresies by Lisa McInerney
Name of Book: The Glorious Heresies Author: Lisa McInerney ISBN: 978-0-8041-8906-4 Publisher: Tim Duggan Books Type of book: drugs, gangs, Ireland, church, giving up children, coming-of-age, sex, jail, family, father-son relationship, modern times, prostitution, beating up, violence, murder, choices, consequences, converting, Catholic church Year it was published: 2015 Summary: 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 ...