Thirst Trap
A funny and bittersweet story about the messy reality of friendship
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- 5,99 €
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- 5,99 €
Publisher Description
The International Bestseller
'Hilarious and gut-wrenching' - Alice Slater, author of Death of a Bookseller
'Think Dolly Alderton, but with the sharp edges of Eliza Clark' - Independent
In a crumbling Belfast houseshare, three women are living for the weekend, their wild friendship the core of their lives.
Maggie: navigating the twin perils of therapy and a situationship with an unavailable woman.
Harley: careening from club to club, hookup to hookup, in a blurry quest for meaning.
Róise: about to turn thirty, her crush on her boss the only reason she still turns up to work.
But the three of them used to be four. And now, one year on from a tragic accident, Maggie, Róise and Harley still can’t face up to any of it: to the death of their best friend, adulthood, the future, and to each other.
'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'
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
It’s a house-share many will recognise, crumbling and filled with uncertain friendships. But there is one unusual aspect. Lydia’s room is empty, because Lydia is dead.
The other three girls—Rosie, Maggie and Harley—are still living together, along with Lydia’s pet turtle, and grieving for their friend. They are also starting to wonder if the party days of their twenties are over. Is there more out there than the drugs, alcohol, Belfast nightlife and a string of one-night stands?
Fans of Dolly Alderton and the TV series GIRLS and Fleabag will enjoy this funny and bittersweet novel. It dissects young women’s friendships and the forced intimacies of living together with precision and wit. Reading Thirst Trap is the equivalent of joining the morning-after conversation having woken up on the sofa in last night’s make-up.
