Thirst Trap

A wildly original debut set in Belfast: full of the pain, joy and bad decisions arising from young friendship, grief and bad house shares.

The International Bestseller
Shortlisted for the Betty Trask Prize

'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'