The Lesser Bohemians

Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize 2017

Longlisted for the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction 2017

Shortlisted for the Goldsmith's Prize 2016

Shortlisted for the Bord Gais Irish Novel of the Year 2016

The vibrant energy of 1990s London. A year of passion and discovery. The anxiety and intensity of new love. An eighteen-year-old Irish girl arrives in London to study drama and falls violently in love with an older actor.

While she is naive and thrilled by life in the big city, he is haunted by demons, and the clamorous relationship that ensues risks undoing them both.

At once epic and exquisitely intimate, The Lesser Bohemians is a celebration of the dark and the light in love from the author of A Girl is a Half-formed Thing.