Show Them A Good Time

'I truly love and admire Nicole Flattery's writing.Show Them a Good Timeis a masterclass in the short story – bold, irreverent and agonisingly funny – and it does full justice to its author's immense talent' SALLY ROONEY

'Demands repeated reading. These stories are very funny, and very sad, usually at the same time. Which, as Flattery shows us brilliantly, is the best time' JON MCGREGOR

'Flattery writes with empathy, freedom and virtuosic technique: this debut announces the arrival of a brilliant talentFINANCIAL TIMES

'Bold and bracing.Show Them a Good Timeheralds a rising starIRISH TIMES

An urgent and unforgettable collection of stories,Show Them a Good Time&explores types - men and women, their assigned roles and meanings - in modern society.

A young, broke Irish woman narrates her relationship with a successful comedian in New York; two hapless university students take to the stage in a bid to assert their autonomy; a school teacher makes her way through a series of dead-end dates, gamely searching for love or distraction as the world teeters towards ruin.

The characters in these magnificently accomplished stories are haunted as much by the future as they are by their pasts. Exuberant, irreverent and loaded with dark humour,Show Them a Good Time&marks the arrival of a strikingly original new Irish voice in fiction.