The Rules of Revelation

by Lisa Mcinerney (John Murray) “Cork City made its own music” is the opening line from Lisa Mcinerney’s third novel, following the critical and commercial hits that were The Glorious Heresies and The Blood Miracles. The Rules of Revelations (another wonderfully brassy biblical title) makes its own music, bold and bawdy, as it chases the demons and dragons that tease, thwart and titillate a quartet of women, all living in that city by the Lee. A novel, as the publicity smartly puts it, “about understanding that the place that shaped you doesn’t need to be the place that breaks you.”