Belfast Nights, Grief And Friendship Power A Raw Debut
Belfast nightlife drives Gráinne O'Hare's raw debut, following three women whose crumbling houseshare holds grief, therapy, situationships and fierce friendship. The novel lands because its humour has bruises underneath, catching the mess of growing up late with painful comic precision.
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Belfast Nights, Grief And Friendship Power A Raw Debut
Belfast nightlife drives Gráinne O'Hare's raw debut, following three women whose crumbling houseshare holds grief, therapy, situationships and fierce friendship. The novel lands because its humour has bruises underneath, catching the mess of growing up late with painful comic precision.
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The International Bestseller
'Hilarious and gut-wrenching' - Alice Slater, author of Death of a Bookseller
'Think Dolly Alderton, but with the sharp edges of Eliza Clark' Independent
In a crumbling Belfast houseshare, three women are living for the weekend, their wild friendship the core of their lives. Maggie: navigating the twin perils of therapy and a situationship with an unavailable woman.
Harley: careening from club to club, hookup to hookup, in a blurry quest for meaning. Róise: about to turn thirty, her crush on her boss the only reason she still turns up to work.
But the three of them used to be four. And now, one year on from a tragic accident, Maggie, Róise and Harley still can't face up to any of it: to the death of their best friend, adulthood, the future, and to each other.
'Compulsively readable and brilliant on friendship and grief. I raced through it' - Daily Mail
'So funny, taut and complex' - Wendy Erskine, author of The Benefactors
'Like the literary love child of Miranda July and Carrie Fisher, transposed in Belfast - hilarious, smart and chaotic in the best way' - Louise Nealon, author of Snowflake
Shortlisted for Newcomer of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards
A Most-Anticipated Novel of Year - DAZED, Irish Times, RTÉ
Readers are raving about Thirst Trap:
'Made me laugh and cry in equal measure'
'Laugh-out-loud funny and deeply moving... I loved every page of it'
'Sharp, funny, and deeply relatable'
'This book is the moment'
'I mourned this being over. It's sad and beautiful and real and messy. It's perfect'
Ideal for readers who:
- Want sharp contemporary fiction about friendship, grief and messy early adulthood.
- Enjoy Belfast-set stories with humour, heartbreak and complicated female bonds.
- Like character-driven novels that move between nightlife, loss and emotional avoidance.
- Respond to fiction that is funny, raw, chaotic and painfully honest.
- About The Author
- Gráinne O'Hare is a writer from Belfast based in Newcastle upon Tyne. She received a Northern Debut Award for Fiction from New Writing North in 2022, and was awarded funding by the Arts Council in 2023 for the development and completion of her first novel. She has also been shortlisted for the Francis MacManus Short Story Competition and the Bridport Prize, and came in the top three of the Benedict Kiely Short Story Competition in 2021 and 2022. She is Media Sub-Editor of Criticks reviews for the British Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies, and is currently completing a PhD on eighteenth-century women's life-writing at Newcastle University. Thirst Trap is her first novel.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781035046218
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Picador, (07 May 2026)
- Number of Pages
- 256
- Weight
- 198 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 198 x 130 x 18 mm
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