Thirst Trap: A funny and bittersweet story about the messy reality of friendship

**Shortlisted for Newcomer of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards**

'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

A Most-Anticipated Novel of 2025 - 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'

© 2025 Picador (Audiobook): 9781035046232

Release date

Audiobook: 12 June 2025