The Amusements by Aingeala Flannery is DCU Book Club's featured book in September. Aingeala, DCU Writer in Residence 2024, joins us as special guest for an 'in conversation with' event at Belvedere Library, Belvedere House, St. Patrick’s campus.
About the Book
Winner of the Irish Novel of the Year Award at Listowel Writers' Week, The Amusements is a stunning portrayal of small-town life in Tramore, County Waterford. Local teenager Helen Grant dreams of escaping to art college with her glamorous classmate Stella Swaine, but leaving Tramore proves challenging. Spanning three decades, the novel follows the intertwined lives of the Grant and Swaine families, capturing the essence of roads taken and not taken. Marian Keyes praises it as "painfully, beautifully real" and "impeccably written."
About the Author
Aingeala Flannery, born in Waterford, is an award-winning journalist, broadcaster, and writer. Her debut novel, The Amusements, published by Penguin Sandycove in June 2022, was shortlisted for The Irish Book Awards. She won the 2018 Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair and the Harper’s Bazaar Short Story Prize in 2019. Aingeala holds an MFA in Creative Writing from UCD and lives in Dublin, currently working on her second novel.
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