Iron Annie
SHORTLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2022
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Iron Annie
Narrated by:
Eleanor McLoughlin
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Narrated by:
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Eleanor McLoughlin
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Luke Cassidy
Summary
I still think’a her every day, several times a day.
Aoife knows everyone in Dundalk’s underworld. Too well, in some cases. But when she meets Annie, a beautiful whirlwind of a woman, and brings her to the Town, she finds that she doesn't know nearly enough about her. Annie is magnetic and wild and Aoife’s desire to learn more quickly becomes a need, and then an obsession – to know this dangerous woman, to love her, to keep her. So when Aoife’s friend and collaborator the Rat King asks her to help him dispose of ten kilos of cocaine, swiped from a rival, she brings Annie along for a road trip through a Britain that she only knows as a place to be suspicious of. So when Annie decides she doesn’t want to return to Ireland, Aoife makes a decision that changes everything.
Gritty and yet tender, tragic and yet hopeful, Iron Annie is a breakneck journey that crackles with energy, warmth and heart, and marks the arrival of a fresh and vibrant new voice in literary fiction.(P)2023 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Critic Reviews
What an exquisite novel Iron Annie is. The narrative voice fair crackles: it’s full of wonder, grit, insight, sadness and joy, and is quite beautiful. And Aoife is one of those fictional characters that arrives only once or twice in an age, sublimely rendered and completely unforgettable. (Donal Ryan, author of The Spinning Heart and From a Low and Quiet Sea)
It’s apparent from the opening lines of Iron Annie that Luke Cassidy can write. His prose fizzes with energy and music, and the reader is immediately plunged into the anarchic underbelly of Ireland and the lives of Cassidy’s vivid characters. (Graeme Macrae Burnet, author of His Bloody Project)
It’s wild and fierce and full of awful life. Also dead funny . . . This needs to be slapped on the arse and let out snorting into the world like a mustang horse (Niall Griffiths, author of Grits, Sheepshagger and Stump)
Iron Annie marks the arrival of a fresh and compelling young voice in literary fiction . . . These complex, funny, tender, lewd and lovely characters will grab you by the throat from the first line and dare you to stop reading (Emily Rapp Black, author of Poster Child, The Still Point of the Turning World, Cartography for Cripples and Sanctuary)
Iron Annie is a staggering debut novel. And what makes it so stylish and ferocious isn’t the drugs, the brutal violence, or even the wild love and sex – it’s the language. I’ve never read anything like the sentences in here. (Rachel DeWoskin, author of Banshee, Big Girl Small, and Foreign Babes in Beijing)
Absolute pearler of a job by Elanor McLoughlin, but I have to say, I wouldn't be running out to buy a hard copy, this really shines as an audio book.
Refreshing to have some really quality, queer-leaning non-American content, and will definitely look out for Cassidy's future work.
Bit lacking plot-wise, however the fact that Iron Annie is set in Ireland, and the venacular used more than makes up for that. Books like this don't come by often, more than worth a listen.
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