Lazy City
- 6 Jun 2024
- 9781838859695
- £9.99
- 288 pp
- 130×196mm
- 24 Aug 2023
- 9781838859701
- £7.99
- 288 pp
- 24 Aug 2023
- 9781838859688
- £20.99
- 8 hrs 31 min
In a few words
An electrifying debut set in Belfast exploring dysfunctional relationships, love and heartbreak – all through the lens of a young woman wrestling with the death of her closest friend
In a few words
An electrifying debut set in Belfast exploring dysfunctional relationships, love and heartbreak – all through the lens of a young woman wrestling with the death of her closest friend
In a few words
An electrifying debut set in Belfast exploring dysfunctional relationships, love and heartbreak – all through the lens of a young woman wrestling with the death of her closest friend
Here is a debut to savour, a brilliant and vivid new voice to guide us through the calamities of the contemporary
Kevin Barry
Rachel Connolly is a bright new star in fiction. Connolly’s beautifully drawn portrait of modem Belfast is fresh and quietly subversive and her prose is incisive and sharp. A must read
Eliza Clark
Here is a debut to savour, a brilliant and vivid new voice to guide us through the calamities of the contemporary
Kevin Barry
Rachel Connolly is a bright new star in fiction. Connolly’s beautifully drawn portrait of modem Belfast is fresh and quietly subversive and her prose is incisive and sharp. A must read
Eliza Clark
Here is a debut to savour, a brilliant and vivid new voice to guide us through the calamities of the contemporary
Kevin Barry
Rachel Connolly is a bright new star in fiction. Connolly’s beautifully drawn portrait of modem Belfast is fresh and quietly subversive and her prose is incisive and sharp. A must read
Eliza Clark
More about
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BETTY TRASK PRIZE
Following the death of her best friend, Erin has to get out of London. Returning home to Belfast, an au pair job provides some refuge from her grief and her relentless mother. She spends her spare daytime sitting in quiet churches and her free nights at the bar where her childhood friend Declan works.
Erin is grateful for the distraction offered by, first, a good-looking American academic, and then the reappearance in her life of an old flame. They offer delightful diversions. But Erin must eventually confront herself.
More about
the book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BETTY TRASK PRIZE
Following the death of her best friend, Erin has to get out of London. Returning home to Belfast, an au pair job provides some refuge from her grief and her relentless mother. She spends her spare daytime sitting in quiet churches and her free nights at the bar where her childhood friend Declan works.
Erin is grateful for the distraction offered by, first, a good-looking American academic, and then the reappearance in her life of an old flame. They offer delightful diversions. But Erin must eventually confront herself.
More about
the book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BETTY TRASK PRIZE
Following the death of her best friend, Erin has to get out of London. Returning home to Belfast, an au pair job provides a partial refuge from her grief and her volatile relationship with her mother. Erin spends late nights at the bar where her childhood friend Declan works. There Erin meets an American academic who is also looking to get lost. Parallel to this she reconnects with an old flame, Mikey. This brings its own web of complications.
With a startlingly fresh and original voice – jarringly funny, cranky, often hungover – Lazy City depicts the strange, meandering aftermath that follows disaster.
In the wry and compassionate Lazy City, Rachel Connolly deftly captures both the intoxicating chaos and listlessness of young adulthood, when life seems both full of possibility and impossibly elusive
Colin Barrett
Crisp, clear-eyed and witty writing that looks bravely at complicated emotions and renders them fully real. Connolly’s characters and their flawed, human attempts at redemption will stay with me for a long time
Monica Heisey
It’s also a novel about trauma and its aftermath: again, a common theme today, but done sophisticatedly here, with a quality of thinking rare in a debut . . . Connolly gives Erin a dry, wry voice, and one that’s frequently very funny . . . Lazy City exhibits an understanding of the importance of our homeland as the container that shapes us . . . I felt better after reading this book. Connolly is a writer in whom I have faith
John Self
Daily TelegraphConnolly strikes the by now familiar tone of confusion and melancholy, but with a piercing penetration and observational clarity . . . Profound
In the wry and compassionate Lazy City, Rachel Connolly deftly captures both the intoxicating chaos and listlessness of young adulthood, when life seems both full of possibility and impossibly elusive
Colin Barrett
Crisp, clear-eyed and witty writing that looks bravely at complicated emotions and renders them fully real. Connolly’s characters and their flawed, human attempts at redemption will stay with me for a long time
Monica Heisey
It’s also a novel about trauma and its aftermath: again, a common theme today, but done sophisticatedly here, with a quality of thinking rare in a debut . . . Connolly gives Erin a dry, wry voice, and one that’s frequently very funny . . . Lazy City exhibits an understanding of the importance of our homeland as the container that shapes us . . . I felt better after reading this book. Connolly is a writer in whom I have faith
John Self
Daily TelegraphConnolly strikes the by now familiar tone of confusion and melancholy, but with a piercing penetration and observational clarity . . . Profound
In the wry and compassionate Lazy City, Rachel Connolly deftly captures both the intoxicating chaos and listlessness of young adulthood, when life seems both full of possibility and impossibly elusive
Colin Barrett
Crisp, clear-eyed and witty writing that looks bravely at complicated emotions and renders them fully real. Connolly’s characters and their flawed, human attempts at redemption will stay with me for a long time
Monica Heisey
It’s also a novel about trauma and its aftermath: again, a common theme today, but done sophisticatedly here, with a quality of thinking rare in a debut . . . Connolly gives Erin a dry, wry voice, and one that’s frequently very funny . . . Lazy City exhibits an understanding of the importance of our homeland as the container that shapes us . . . I felt better after reading this book. Connolly is a writer in whom I have faith
John Self
Daily TelegraphConnolly strikes the by now familiar tone of confusion and melancholy, but with a piercing penetration and observational clarity . . . Profound
Rachel Connolly
View profileRachel Connolly was born in 1993 in Belfast and now lives in London. She has written for the New York Times, New York Magazine, the Guardian and many other publications. Her fiction has been published in the Stinging Fly and Granta. Her debut novel Lazy City was shortlisted for the 2024 Betty Trask Prize.
Rachel Connolly
View profileRachel Connolly was born in 1993 in Belfast and now lives in London. She has written for the New York Times, New York Magazine, the Guardian and many other publications. Her fiction has been published in the Stinging Fly and Granta. Her debut novel Lazy City was shortlisted for the 2024 Betty Trask Prize.
Rachel Connolly
View profileRachel Connolly was born in 1993 in Belfast and now lives in London. She has written for the New York Times, New York Magazine, the Guardian and many other publications. Her fiction has been published in the Stinging Fly and Granta.
