Tina Jackson
Last year, Irish writer Lisa McInerney won the Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction with The Glorious Heresies, her debut novel: a savage, multi-voiced, blackly humorous and very dark account of the repercussions of the aftermath of a murder in council-estate Cork. Its follow-up, published on 20 April, is The Blood Miracles. Equally filthy, funny and inventive, the focus, alternately tough and tender, is on a key character from Heresies, teenage drug dealer Ryan, as he is drawn deeper into the world of gangland trafficking.