Iron Annie

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Iron Annie

By: Luke Cassidy

Narrated by: Eleanor McLoughlin

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Bloomsbury presents Iron Annie by Luke Cassidy, read by Eleanor McLoughlin.

I still think’a her every day, several times a day.

Aoife knows everyone in Dundalk’s underworld. Too well, in some cases. But when she meets Annie, a beautiful whirlwind of a woman, and brings her to the Town, she finds that she doesn't know nearly enough about her. Annie is magnetic and wild and Aoife’s desire to learn more quickly becomes a need, and then an obsession – to know this dangerous woman, to love her, to keep her. So when Aoife’s friend and collaborator the Rat King asks her to help him dispose of ten kilos of cocaine, swiped from a rival, she brings Annie along for a road trip through a Britain that she only knows as a place to be suspicious of. So when Annie decides she doesn’t want to return to Ireland, Aoife makes a decision that changes everything.

Gritty and yet tender, tragic and yet hopeful, Iron Annie is a breakneck journey that crackles with energy, warmth and heart, and marks the arrival of a fresh and vibrant new voice in literary fiction.

Luke CassidyEleanor McLoughlinBloomsbury Publishing Plc

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Critic reviews

"What an exquisite novel Iron Annie is. The narrative voice fair crackles: it’s full of wonder, grit, insight, sadness and joy, and is quite beautiful. And Aoife is one of those fictional characters that arrives only once or twice in an age, sublimely rendered and completely unforgettable." (Donal Ryan, author of The Spinning Heart and From a Low and Quiet Sea)

"It’s apparent from the opening lines of Iron Annie that Luke Cassidy can write. His prose fizzes with energy and music, and the reader is immediately plunged into the anarchic underbelly of Ireland and the lives of Cassidy’s vivid characters." (Graeme Macrae Burnet, author of His Bloody Project)

"It’s wild and fierce and full of awful life. Also dead funny.... This needs to be slapped on the arse and let out snorting into the world like a mustang horse." (Niall Griffiths, author of Grits, Sheepshagger and Stump)

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I bought this book and was about half-way through reading it when I switched to the audio version. I switched partly because I was curious to hear the main character's Dundalk accent, and partly because I like to listen to audio books while I paint. Eleanor McLoughlin narrates this story just beautifully. She just totally nails it, both the accent and the character of Aoife.
The story itself is full of adventure and misdeeds, and the plot is enough to keep you turning the pages. But, for me, it's the mix of humour and pathos that warrants the 5 stars. This is an amazing debut of a novel, and a great addition to Irish literature. I can hear slight echoes of Flann Ó Brien occasionally, and a little of James Joyce too. But this takes nothing from its originality. Rather it establishes its place in a rich tradition of Irish writing. I loved it.