Lisa McInerney's 'astounding' debut novel wins Desmond Elliott prize

A fortnight after bagging the Baileys prize for women’s fiction, The Glorious Heresies takes £10,000 honour

Two weeks after Lisa McInerney won the Baileys prize for women’s fiction, the Irish writer has won the £10,000 Desmond Elliott prize for her debut novel The Glorious Heresies, which judges said had “electricity running through [its] prose”.

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