Sinead Gleeson's debut essay collection Constellations: Reflections from Life (Picador) won Non-Fiction Book of the Year at 2019 Irish Book Awards and in 2020 was shortlisted for the Dalkey Literary Award, the Rathbones Folio Prize and the Michel Deon Prize. Her short stories have featured in several anthologies including Being Various: New Irish Short Stories (Faber, 2019) and Repeal the 8th. She has edited the award-winning anthologies The Long Gaze Back: An Anthology of Irish Women Writers and The Glass Shore: Short Stories by Women Writers from the North of Ireland, and is currently working on a novel.
‘A wonderfully surprising and totally original novel from a compelling voice’ Elaine Feeney, author of How to Build a Boat ‘An intelligent, probing novel about isolation, art, and the incompatible desires for both solitude and community’ Maggie O’Farrell, author of Hamnet 'I felt that I was in a great folk horror film. I wasn't just watching it; I was in it. It is a startling, engrossing, darkly playful novel' Roddy Doyle, author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha 'A mingling of mystery, folklore, sci-fi and self-discovery, Hagstone is an entirely original tale that left me haunted and moved. I loved it.' Jennifer Higgie, author of The Other Side 'A brilliant, gripping novel' Sara Baume, author of A Line Made By Walking ‘Tender and inclusive, fierce and unapologetic. A portrait of the myriad and often conflicting desires that burn within the deep, hot core of women’ Sue Rainsford, author of Redder Days 'A beautiful, unsettling novel about the possibility of a woman crafting the shape of her own life, and the eternal connections we all have to the earth, sea and sky' Rebecca Tamas, author of Strangers ‘Such a beautiful read’ Cosey Fanny Tutti, author of Art Sex Music ‘I loved this beautiful, eerie novel' Patrick Freyne, author of OK, Let's Do Your Stupid Idea ‘A wildly seductive, gothic feminine tale of the sea, art, folklore, the past, women, power and more. I am bereft now I’ve finished it’ Kerri ní Dochartaigh, author of Thin Places ‘I sometimes found myself holding my breath, as if under water, as I read this brilliant novel’ Sally Huband, author of Sea Bean