Orchid & the Wasp

This debut novel from an award-winning poet presents a humorous and anarchic portrait of downward mobility in post-crash Dublin. According to John Banville, Hughes 'writes with authority and insight, and her novel is as up-to-date as tomorrow's financial-page headlines.'

About the author

Caoilinn Hughes is the author of Orchid & the Wasp, which won the Collyer Bristow Prize and was longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award, and The Wild Laughter, which won the Royal Society of Literature’s Encore Award and was longlisted for the International Dylan Thomas Prize. She was recently the Oscar Wilde Centre Writer Fellow at Trinity College Dublin, and will be a Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library for 2023-2024.

Summary

A hilarious and anarchic portrait of a downwardly mobile family in post-crash Dublin

Product details

• Authors: Caoilinn Hughes
• Publisher: Oneworld
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9781786073655
• ISBN: 978-1-78607-365-5
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Women, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, Ireland, FICTION / Urban & Street Lit, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary