Irish black comedy gets ‘110% support’ from jury led by Apprentice star Margaret Mountford to win £30,000 award for fiction by women
Lisa McInerney, who started her career as a writer with a blog about life on a council estate in the “Arse End of Ireland”, has won the Baileys women’s prize for fiction with her debut novel, beating Man Booker winner Anne Enright and bestseller Hanya Yanagihara to the £30,000 award.
McInerney’s winning novel The Glorious Heresies tells how an accidental murder – “She hadn’t gotten a look at his face before she flaked him with the Holy Stone and she couldn’t bring herself to turn him over” – plays out in the lives of a cast that includes a 15-year-old drug dealer, his alcoholic father, a prostitute and a gangland boss.
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