bWinner of the 2016 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and the Desmond Elliott PrizebrbShortlisted for Best Newcomer at the Irish Book AwardsbbrLonglisted for the 2016 International Dylan Thomas PrizeibrThe Irish Timesi March Book of the Monthb pFrom Lisa McInerney, hailed by iThe Irish Timesi as arguably the most talented writer at work in Ireland today, comes iThe Glorious Heresiesi, a searing debut novel about life on the fringes of Ireland's post-crash society. br When grandmother Maureen Phelan is surprised in her home by a stranger, she clubs the intruder with a Holy Stone. The consequences of this unplanned murder connect four misfits struggling against their meager circumstances. Ryan is a fifteen-year-old drug dealer desperate not to turn out like his alcoholic father, Tony, whose feud with his next-door neighbor threatens to ruin his family. Georgie is a sex worker who half-heartedly joins a born-again movement to escape her profession and drug habit. And Jimmy Phelan, the mos