Thirst Trap by Grainne O'Hare

The International Bestseller
WINNER of the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award
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 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 the group apart, Harley, Maggie and Róise still can't face up to any of it: to adulthood, the future, or to one another.

'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 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'