The story of how ‘one messy murder affects the lives of five misfits who exist on the fringes of Ireland’s post-crash society’ in Lisa McInerney’sThe Glorious Heresies comes with accolades heaped upon it by the likes of Joseph O’Connor, Kevin Barry and Donal Ryan. Lisa’s blog about life on a Galway council estate - ‘Arse End of Ireland’ - introduced readers to the darkly comic style that is evident in The Glorious Heresies. Lisa has been nominated for the 2016 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction.