The Glorious Heresies, Irish author Lisa McInerney’s debut novel, has won the £30,000 2016 Baileys Women’s Prize for Ficrion beating a star-studded shortlist including the favourite, The Green Road by Anne Enright and Hanya Yangihara’s best-selling A Little Life. Chief judge Margaret Mountford described The Glorious Heresies, set in post-financial crash Ireland, as “a superbly original, compassionate novel that delivers insights into the very darkest of lives through humour and skilful storytelling. A fresh new voice and a wonderful winner. …“I come from Ireland, so I can say that the Irish do black humour better than anyone else … You get that rich vein of humour throughout this book, which stops it from being bleak.”