＊ 入选2016 贝礼诗（Bailey’s）女性小说奖
＊ 入选迪伦汤玛士文学奖(Dylan Thomas Prize)
＊ 亚马逊4.5颗星评价
 
若你看到“谋杀案”就以为这是一本普通的惊悚推理小说，你就错了！
 
一件混乱的谋杀案影响了五位生活在爱尔兰的边缘人。Ryan是一个十五岁的毒贩，他拼了命不让自己变成自己酗酒的父亲Tony。Tony痴迷着隔壁的疯邻居，这股执着对自己和家人都带来威胁。妓女Georgie假装自己愿意改变信仰的行为将有危险的后果…而意外杀了人，在外逃亡40年的Maureen，重返Cork 后，发现自己当初不得不抛下的儿子Jimmy已经成为该城市最令人害怕的黑帮。为自己赎罪的过程中， Maureen威胁要摧毁儿子一手努力打造的黑势力，她的行为将会把爱尔兰黑色的地下生活摊在聚光灯下…
 
痛苦、动人、黑色幽默…《光荣的异端》探索了救赎、羞愧与二十世纪爱尔兰对性与家庭的态度。
 
好评如潮
A punchy, edgy, sexy, fizzing feast of a debut novel from an immensely skilled storyteller with a glorious passion for words. I loved it (Joseph O'Connor, author of Star of the Sea)
 
Here's a writer who's totally and unmistakably the real deal and whose every page pulses with vim and vitality and mad twisty insights and terrific description and with real tenderness, too (Kevin Barry)
 
A gripping and often riotously funny tale . . . McInerney gifts us a memorable cast that are tough as nails, savagely articulate, and helplessly human (Colin Barrett)
 
A real stunner; a wild ride of a read (Donal Ryan, author of The Spinning Heart)
 
This is, joyously, in that tiny sliver of books I read every year that I press on to people and insist they read. It fizzes, it crackles, it kicks you in the balls on a fairly regular basis, peels away the layers of what could have been dull stereotypes and it stuffs you to the gills with the most edible prose of the 'read it again and again just to savour it' variety. Stylistically, even though they're two different books, I kept being reminded of Kevin Barry's City Of Bohane . . . I hope I read a better Irish novel this year but I'm not sure I will (Rick O'Shea)
 
A spectacular debut . . . Tough and tender, gothic and lyrical, it is a head-spinning, stomach-churning state-of-the-nation novel about a nation falling apart . . . full of cracking lines and singular characters (Telegraph)
 
An accomplished, seriously enjoyable and high-octane morality tale, full of empathy, feeling and soul (Irish Times)
 
The Glorious Heresies heralds the arrival of a glorious, foul-mouthed, fizzing new talent (Sunday Times)
 
A tough pitiless cross section of modern Ireland after the demise of the Celtic Tiger. And through all the darkness and violence, it is fiendishly hilarious (The Times)
 
Arguably the most talented writer at work in Ireland today (Irish Times)
 
The Sweary Lady is on bellicose form . . . McInerney has talent to burn (Guardian)
 
Impressive and imaginative . . . a superb debut from a confident and comic writer with no fear of taking on serious material; McInerney is a new talent to watch out for (Irish Mail on Sunday)
 
The [book] I reached for as my book at bedtime, the one I tore through most hungrily . . . The strongest thing about the book is its security of characterisation and tightness of plot; and particularly, the way in which turns of the plot are tangibly shaped by the flaws that even the more likeable characters (and they're all likeable to some extent) possess (The Spectator)
 
This debut novel set in the world of the Irish underclass, is brutally funny (Sunday Times)
 
Every bit as nuanced and sad and sharp as we'd have hoped, and as gloriously expansive and manic and iconoclastic as the title suggests (Bookmunch)
 
McInerney's riotous, sweary debut tracks the lives of five outsiders living in Ireland's post-boom badlands . . . It delves into the complicated webs of relationships that make up a family, and explores shame and the search for redemption with wholehearted exuberance (Psychologies)
 
Lisa McInerney's debut takes a revenge and redemption storyline and weaves in Ireland's inability to come to terms with its recent past (Belfast Telegraph)
 
This is a tough book filled with punches and wisecracks, but it also wrenches emotion . . . Much of Heresies' plot revolves around death, but each page cracks with life - jolting you like a slap in the face, or a first kiss (Emerald Street)
 
An impressive debut about a handful of solid characters telling their stories in a grim hopeless city . . . The characters are complex and rich and there are wonderful elements here of rural murder mystery, teen romance between star-crossed lovers on drug riddled streets, and the compelling guesswork of well-told family drama . . . Some of the interlude paragraphs between chapters could be short stories themselves, wonderful and precise. McInerney has done a commendable job breathing life into a dark theatre of lost souls, and is definitely an author worth paying attention to (We Love This Book)
 
Its scope is ambitious, its prose unfussy and economical but wholly affecting. Amid the vividness of some truly colourful characters, there is genuine emotion and pathos (Irish Independent)
 
'Totally and unmistakably the real deal' says Irish author kevin Barry on the jacket cover . . . For once, this is not hyperbole . . . This darkly funny book mines gold from grim circumstances. It is heartfelt and poignant, too . . . Comparisons with early Irvine Welsh, Roddy Doyle, Alan Warner or the plays of Martin McDonagh all stand up. With it, McInerney also joins the vanguard of an exciting new wave of young Irish writers . . . [who] all write with a thrill for language and are portraying a harder-edged Ireland (Metro)
 
Ireland seems to have had more than its fair share of brilliant new fictional voices of late, with the likes of Eimear McBride, Colin Barrett and Kevin Barry all picking up plaudits and prizes in equal measure. And so into this creative scene steps Lisa McInerney, another terrific writer whose first novel, The Glorious Heresies, has all the trappings of a possible future classic . . . the author writes with a huge amount of empathy for her imperfect creations. They may not be doing nice things or living good lives, but McInerney presents them as real people, not caricatures, and the book as a whole serves as a fascinating and accomplished commentary on modern Irish life (Big Issue)
 
McInerney's prose is unshowy and - a rare thing - largely un-Joycean, and she tells a good story . . . she writes about what she knows best and gets it right. Her dialogue is realistic and her prose fluent (The Spectator)
 
Like her compatriot Kevin Barry, McInerney writes in the local vernacular, with a smattering of Gaelic. Her cynical voice is pitch-perfect for a community left behind by a Church that has done its damage and a Celtic tiger that has made a dash for the airport . . . a rich, touching, hilarious novel (FT Weekend)
 
A spectacular debut . . . Tough and tender, gothic and lyrical, it is a head-spinning, stomach-churning state-of-the-nation novel (Telegraph)
 
Joseph O'Connor in the Irish Times described McInerney's debut novel as a"big, brassy, sexy beast of a book", and it's hard to disagree (Irish Times)
 
Fizzing, foul-mouthed debut by the author of the blog Arse End of Ireland (Sunday Times)
 
A rollicking tale of drug dealing, young love and accidental murder in Cork (Guardian)
 
I was thrilled to see Lisa McInerney's huge talent on display (Belinda McKeon, Irish Times)
 
One of the many achievements of this remarkable novel is that murder, prostitution, drug dealing and addiction come to seem like the norm. In this slice of Irish underclass life, where children are often brutalised by drunk and violent parents, the need to escape takes on greater urgency, and the routes are as clearly defined along gender lines as in an Enid Blyton novel . . . It is a grim, grim world, but it is, amazingly, about as far from a grim read as you can get. There is humour and the sheer, seething energy of the prose. And there is a poetry at the heart of this novel, and a pathos and a poignancy, that lifts it out of its squalor and blasts it into another sphere. The Glorious Heresies heralds the arrival of a glorious, foul-mouthed, fizzing new talent (Sunday Times)
 
McInerney handles [the characters'] narratives with brio and care, and the world she imagines is wonderfully savage, grotesque , grubby and desperate. Yet it is also tender and humane and often brought to life in resonant, precise, antic and darkly beautiful prose . . . This is a daring, exuberant and generous novel. And a work to which you will want - eagerly - to return (Observer)
 
[Lisa McInerney's] darkly comic debut doesn't disappoint. As bold as the neon splash of colour on its cover, The Glorious Heresies interweaves the stories of some great, flawed characters as they keep their heads above water in a very grim version of Cork . . . Gritty and funny, it's laced with delicious sentences that deserve a second reading to be appreciated (Herald)
 
You can't fault McInerney for lack of exuberance; she has a tendency to fire off bold, extended metaphors and let them ricochet down the page. There is no question that she has talent to burn (Guardian)
 
One of the many achievements of McInerney's remarkable novel is that murder, prostitution, drug dealing and addiction soon come to seem like the norm. In this slice of Irish underclass life, where children are often brutalised by drunk and violent parents, the need to escape takes on greater urgency. It is a grim, grim world, but it is, amazingly, about as far from a grim read as you can get. For a start, there is the humour and the sheer, seething, broiling energy of the prose, which is peppered with the kind of language your mother would call unforgivable. As in Roddy Doyle and Irvine Welsh at their best, it doesn't feel gratuitous. It just feels true (Sunday Times)
 
 
关于作者
Lisa McInerney来自Galway，写部落格写到得奖，她的部落格是“Arse End of Ireland”。《爱尔兰时报》说她是“目前在爱尔兰工作最有才华的作家” 。各大报都夸成这样了，她妈妈还是不为所动。