My second novel is called The Mess We’re In and it’s coming out in May next year. I couldn’t be happier to share the cover with you today. Here’s what the press release says The book follows Orla Quinn, a young Irish woman who arrives in London at the turn of the millennium, living in a squalid Kilburn house with her best friend and a band called Shiva. There’s nothing for her back home, where her parents’ marriage has crumbled, she’s not speaking to her father, and her mother and sister are drinking too much. Orla wants to make music, but juggling two jobs and partying every night isn’t helping. And while Orla’s own dreams seem to be going nowhere, Shiva are on the brink of something big. Yet as the hype around the band intensifies, so does the hedonism, and relationships in the house are growing strained. And here’s my quote "I wrote this book to explore a formative time in my own life, and to help understand my place in the world. I wanted to convey the intensity of moving to London as a young Irish woman at the start of adulthood; dizzy with freedom and thrashing through life, making mistakes and feeling everything viscerally. I wanted to explore the emotional turbulence and sometimes suffocating intimacy of female friendship; and I wanted to write about music, and how in a world of chaos and noise, songs can act as guide ropes, helping us to find our way back to ourselves. The Mess We’re In is also a love letter to the Irish diaspora, of which I am a proud member; I hoped to portray the conflicting identities within different generations of Irish abroad, and the relentless search for belonging when one always feels like one is neither here nor there.” So there you go. The Mess We’re In. Novel number 2. It’s real! It’s out of my head! I can’t wait for you to meet Orla. Click the link in the bio for all the pre-order info xxx