'Sweary Lady' Lisa McInerney makes Baileys prize shortlist with debut novel

The Glorious Heresies, which grew out of a blog about life on an Irish council estate, is nominated alongside books by Anne Enright and Hanya Yanagihara

Lisa McInerney, the self-styled “Sweary Lady” who wrote an award-winning blog about working-class life on a Galway council estate, has been shortlisted for the £30,000 Baileys women’s prize for fiction for her debut novel, The Glorious Heresies.

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