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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'

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Hilarious and gut-wrenching -- Alice Slater, author of <i>Death of a Bookseller</i> A triumph. Gráinne O’Hare is 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 <i>Snowflake</i> Raucous, sexy and f*cking hilarious. A heady mix of Michael Magee's Close to Home and Lena Dunham's Girls. Everybody should read this book. -- Aimée Walsh, author of <i>Exile</i> It’s one of those novels that you can’t believe is a debut. O’Hare is a writer to watch out for in 2025 and beyond -- RTÉ A rising star of the Belfast New Wave . . . a book is for anyone who has found themselves on the fraying end of a close friendship, appreciates comedy or experienced their twenties in a blur of high emotion -- <i>The Irish Post</i> High-velocity, hilarious, and rooted in the chaos and absolute commitment of female friendship. I love her work -- Naomi Booth, author of <i>raw content</i> A fresh, fun and feisty story of female friendship and loss -- <i>Irish Post</i> Bit­ter­sweet and bit­ingly funny -- <i>Irish Central</i> 'If you're a fan of Dolly Alderton or Caroline O'Donoghue, then run to your nearest bookshop to get a copy of Thirst Trap . . . incredibly touching, beautifully relatable' -- <i>her</i>

Hilarious and gut-wrenching -- Alice Slater, author of <i>Death of a Bookseller</i> A triumph. Gráinne O’Hare is 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 <i>Snowflake</i> Raucous, sexy and f*cking hilarious. A heady mix of Michael Magee's Close to Home and Lena Dunham's Girls. Everybody should read this book. -- Aimée Walsh, author of <i>Exile</i> It’s one of those novels that you can’t believe is a debut. O’Hare is a writer to watch out for in 2025 and beyond -- RTÉ A rising star of the Belfast New Wave . . . a book is for anyone who has found themselves on the fraying end of a close friendship, appreciates comedy or experienced their twenties in a blur of high emotion -- <i>The Irish Post</i> High-velocity, hilarious, and rooted in the chaos and absolute commitment of female friendship. I love her work -- Naomi Booth, author of <i>raw content</i>

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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.

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