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Lisa McInerney

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Ireland

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http://www.lisamcinerney.com

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Lisa McInerney’s work has featured in Winter Papers, The Stinging Fly, Granta and BBC Radio 4 and in the anthologies Beyond The Centre, The Long Gaze Back and Town and Country. Her debut novel The Glorious Heresies won the 2016 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction and the 2016 Desmond Elliott Prize. Her second novel, The Blood Miracles, is published by John Murray in April 2017.

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Average rating: 3.77 · 11,948 ratings · 1,563 reviews · 23 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Glorious Heresies 3.76 avg rating — 8,627 ratings — published 2015 — 44 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Blood Miracles 3.81 avg rating — 1,038 ratings — published 2017 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Rules of Revelation 3.71 avg rating — 456 ratings — published 2021 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Stinging Fly Issue 43/Volume Two Winter 2020-21 by Lisa McInerney (Editor), Elaine Feeney (Editor) 4.17 avg rating — 12 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Secrets and Confessions by Lisa McInerney (contributor), Juno Dawson (Goodreads Author) (contributor), Jo Clifford (contributor) 3.13 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Five Sites, Five Stages: A Story from the collection, I Am Heathcliff 3.58 avg rating — 12 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Stinging Fly Issue 51/Volume Two \| Winter 2024-25 by Lisa McInerney (Editor), Annemarie Ní Churreáin (Poetry Editor), Róisín Kiberd (Non Fiction Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Stinging Fly Issue 47/Volume Two \| All New Writers Winter 2022-23 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Internazionale n. 1595 : Storie by Lisa McInerney (Curated), Giovanni De Mauro (Contributor), Danielle McLaughlin really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Stinging Fly Issue 52/Volume 2 (Summer 2025) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“She had a face like a slapped arse and an arse like a bag of Doritos”
― Lisa McInerney, The Glorious Heresies

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“The Church creates its sinners so it has something to save.”
― Lisa McInerney, The Glorious Heresies

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“You either need to accept the past as the building blocks that brought you right up to today, or you need to be a better liar.”
― Lisa McInerney, The Glorious Heresies

tags: accepting-the-past

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Please take into account the availability, cost, and length of books when voting for them. Remember, if you vote for a book and it wins, you are implicitly promising to read the book and participate in the discussion. The poll will be open through November 30th. (Note: You can change your vote at any time prior to the closing of the poll.) Discussion will begin January 1st.

The Glorious Heresies by Lisa McInerney

7 votes, 33.3%

All the Living by C.E. Morgan

4 votes, 19.0%

The Known World by Edward P. Jones

3 votes, 14.3%

Swing Time by Zadie Smith

3 votes, 14.3%

Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood

2 votes, 9.5%

The Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra

1 vote, 4.8%

Barkskins byAnnie Proulx

1 vote, 4.8%

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