Böcker av Caroline O'Donoghue

A darkly comic and searingly honest novel about going back to your roots by the acclaimed author of Promising Young Women

For readers of THE COWS, SWEETBITTER or CONVERSATIONS WITH FRIENDS - as well as for fans of FLEABAG or SEARCH PARTY - Caroline O'Donoghue's debut is a gothic, darkly witty novel about sex, power, work and being a young woman in a man's world.

A spellbinding supernatural teen drama and final book in the Gifts series from a New York Times bestselling author.With the return of the Housekeeper on the cards, Maeve must find out everything she can about the vengeful tarot spirit in order to finally defeat her. Crossing over into a parallel dimension inside the old school building, she explores the history of the Housekeeper - and spends too long in a world and a mind not her own.With the Children of Brigid closing in once more, and Maeve's friend group now fractured across Ireland, can they hope to ultimately save the town - and Maeve - from the grip of a power greater than they ever imagined?

BITCH. SCOLD. HARRIDAN.For centuries past, and all across the worldDRAGON. TIGRESS. SHE-DEVIL.There are words for a certain kind of womanFURY. HARPY. SPITFIRE.Words that raise our hackles, fire up our bloodHUSSY. SIREN. VIXEN.Words that tell a storyIn this blazing cauldron of a book, the boldest writers of our day take up these words and take up their pen, celebrating fifty years of Virago.

'Do you know what céad mile fáilte means?''A hundred thousand welcomes.''Not a hundred thousand homes. Not a hundred thousand "stay here's".' Charlie Regan's life isn't going forward, so she's decided to go back. After floundering around the British film industry, experimenting with amateur pornography and watching her father slowly die of cancer, she journeys to her ancestral home of Clipim off the west coast of Ireland. But as she begins to question her father's childhood stories, Charlie becomes embroiled in a devastating conspiracy that's been sixty years in the making . . . and it's up to her to reveal the truth of it.With a sharp eye and sour tongue, Caroline O'Donoghue delivers a delicious contemporary fable of prodigal return. Blisteringly honest, funny and moving, it grapples with love, friendship and the nature of belonging.Praise for PROMISING YOUNG WOMEN'Whipsmart and so witty' Marian Keyes 'One of the brightest stars in the galaxy of young Irish writers' Jane Casey 'Sharp, pithy and vibrant' Irish Times9780349009957Virago fiction[author photo] credit[twitter logo]@Czaroline[Instagram logo] czaronlineczaroline.com