{"id":291608,"date":"2025-06-13T22:18:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T22:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/entertainment\/books\/thirst-trap-by-grainne-ohare-arrested-development\/"},"modified":"2025-06-13T22:18:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T22:18:12","slug":"thirst-trap-by-grainne-ohare-arrested-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=291608","title":{"rendered":"Thirst Trap by Gr\u00e1inne O\u2019Hare: Arrested development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"text\">\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-34470\" src=\"https:\/\/t9z6e6y4.delivery.rocketcdn.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Thirst-Trap-188x300.jpg\" alt=\"Cover image for Thirst Trap by Gr\u00e1inne O\u2019Hare\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/t9z6e6y4.delivery.rocketcdn.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Thirst-Trap-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/t9z6e6y4.delivery.rocketcdn.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Thirst-Trap.jpg 313w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\"\/>I couldn\u2019t resist T<em>hirst Trap\u00a0<\/em>given how many debuts from young Irish women have hit the spot for me in recent years. Gr\u00e1inne O\u2019Hare\u2019s novel is about three friends on the cusp of thirty living in the same house they shared with a fourth, killed in a car accident a year before.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018Lidl,\u2019 Cate said, almost wistfully, as if Maggie had mentioned an exotic country she\u2019d visited during her gap year. \u2018Best wine.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Harley, R\u00f3ise, Maggie and Lydia shared a history that went back decades. Lydia had been the grown-up, working in a corporate job, caring, considerate and dependable. Her death was devastating, all the more so as the housemates were caught up in the fallout of a betrayal which saw some not speaking to her. A year later, R\u00f3ise is still furious, Harley even more chaotic and Maggie\u2019s panic attacks have become worse while the house is falling down around their ears. Something needs to be done but none of them seems able to find a way out until, finally, their hands are forced.<\/p>\n<p><em>At the time, Harley did not even really know what condoms were, imagining then to be made from some kind of waterproof material similar to a cagoule.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Despite the death of a close friend at the heart of this late coming-of-age novel, O\u2019Hare\u2019s narrative is full of an affectionate humour for these three young women already stuck in the life they were living as students before Lydia\u2019s accident. Each of them is dealing \u2013 or failing to deal \u2013 with the aftermath in their own, self-destructive way: Harley lurches from bed to bed, fuelled by a cocktail of drink and drugs; R\u00f3ise seethes in her room, writing off a promising new relationship as just sex while Maggie still jumps to the tune of an old student lover who persistently refers to her as a \u2018friend\u2019. O\u2019Hare neatly takes her characters from the birthday of her novel\u2019s opening chapter to another in a satisfying wrap-up at the novel\u2019s end. Her book deals with the overwhelming grief at the sudden loss of a friend at a young age well, resisting the maudlin, while engaging sympathy for her characters. Not one to shout about from the rooftops but I enjoyed it.<\/p>\n<p>Picador Books: London 9781035046195 288 pages Hardback (Read via NetGalley)<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-block sd-like jetpack-likes-widget-wrapper jetpack-likes-widget-unloaded\" id=\"like-post-wrapper-52859811-34469-684c6ba58b8c1\" data-src=\"https:\/\/widgets.wp.com\/likes\/?ver=14.7#blog_id=52859811&amp;post_id=34469&amp;origin=alifeinbooks.co.uk&amp;obj_id=52859811-34469-684c6ba58b8c1\" data-name=\"like-post-frame-52859811-34469-684c6ba58b8c1\" data-title=\"Like or Reblog\">\n<h3 class=\"sd-title\">Like this:<\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"button\"><span>Like<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"loading\">Loading&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sd-text-color\"\/><a class=\"sd-link-color\"\/><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I couldn\u2019t resist Thirst Trap\u00a0given how many debuts from young Irish women have hit the spot for me in recent years. Gr\u00e1inne O\u2019Hare\u2019s novel is about three friends on the cusp of thirty living in the same house they shared with a fourth, killed in a car accident a year before. \u2018Lidl,\u2019 Cate said, almost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":291609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[21254,27184,2993,54702,122837,122838,38248,27185,33630,33629,10444],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-291608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","tag-arrested","tag-coming-of-age-fiction","tag-development","tag-grainne","tag-grainne-ohare","tag-irish-contemporary-fiction","tag-ohare","tag-picador-books","tag-thirst","tag-thirst-trap","tag-trap"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Thirst Trap by Gr\u00e1inne O\u2019Hare: Arrested development - 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