Lisa McInerney follows up the Glorious Heresies with another look at Cork's seedy underbelly

Lisa McInerney’s new novel continues her exploration of Cork’s seedy underbelly. Whatever the city’s faults, however, she still has a grá for the place she used to call home, writes Marjorie Brennan

TALKING to Lisa McInerney is a lot like reading one of her books: entertaining, funny and enlightening, with a healthy sprinkling of the profane — her Twitter handle is @SwearyLady, after all.

McInerney grabbed the imaginations of readers around the world and some high-profile prizes with her debut novel The Glorious Heresies, so expectations are high for her second, The Blood Miracles.