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Lisa McInerney

Open Book: Lisa McInerney

23/04/2017

BBC Radio 4 - Open Book, Lisa McInerney

Baileys prize-winner Lisa McInerney talks about her second novel, The Blood Miracles.

Mariella Frostrup presents the literary magazine programme. Lisa McInerney, winner of the 2016 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, talks about her second novel, The Blood Miracles.

Lisa McInerney won both the Baileys and Desmond Elliott prizes for her first novel. Her second, The Blood Miracles, is again set in Cork. It's a violent, gritty tale of a young drug dealer at the mercy of rival gangs. 
Also on the programme, an exploration of regional writing and some great books about Singapore.

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