Sometimes friends hold you together. Sometimes they''re why you''re falling apart. Maggie, Harley and Roise are friends on the brink: of triumph, catastrophe, or maybe just finally growing up. Their crumbling Belfast houseshare has been witness to their roaring twenties, filled with questionable one-night stands and ruthless hangovers. But now fault-lines are beginning to show. The three girls are still grieving the tragic death of their friend, Lydia, whose room remains untouched. Their last big fight hangs heavy over their heads, unspoken since the accident. And now they are all beginning to unravel. Thirst Trap by Grainne O''Hare is a blazing, bittersweet, bitingly funny, and painfully relatable story about the friendships that endure through the very best and the very worst of times.

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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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**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

Belfast: three girls are living for the weekend, their wild friendship the only thing that matters.

Harley: hurtling from club to club in a wild and blurry quest for meaning.
Maggie: navigating a situationship with an unavailable woman, and, of course, therapy.
Róise: only bothering to turn up to her boring office job due to an ill-advised crush on her boss.

But the three of them used to be four. And now, one year on from a tragic accident that almost ripped them apart, Harley, Maggie and Róise still can't face up to any of it: to adulthood, the future, and to each other.

'An emotional wild ride in all the best ways' - Dakota Johnson, TEATIME Book club

**'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 the 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'