Gráinne O’Hare: Thirst Trap

Thirst Trap (Picador, 2025) follows three friends living together in Belfast. Maggie, Harley and Róise are friends on the brink: of triumph, catastrophe, or maybe just finally growing up.

Join writer Gráinne O’Hare on the publication day of her debut novel, exploring the friendships that endure through the very best and the very worst of times.

‘Like the literary love child of Miranda July and Carrie Fisher, transposed in Belfast - hilarious, smart and chaotic in the best way’ (Louise Nealon, author of Snowflake)

‘Raucous, sexy and f*cking hilarious. A heady mix of Michael Magee's Close to Home and Lena Dunham’s Girls. Everybody should read this book.’ (Aimée Walsh, author of Exile).

Gráinne O’Hare is a writer from Belfast based in Newcastle upon Tyne. She received a Northern Debut Award for Fiction from New Writing North in 2022, and was awarded funding by the Arts Council in 2023 for the development and completion of her first novel. She has also been shortlisted for the Francis MacManus Short Story Competition and the Bridport Prize, and came in the top three of the Benedict Kiely Short Story Competition in 2021 and 2022. She is Media Sub-Editor of Criticks reviews for the British Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies, and is currently completing a PhD on eighteenth-century women's life-writing at Newcastle University. Thirst Trap is her first novel.