Oh My God What a Complete Aisling The Novel - Softcover

Emer McLysaght; Sarah Breen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0717175537 ISBN 13: 9780717175536

Publisher: Gill Books, 2017

Synopsis

You loved Aisling online, now get ready to love the novel.

Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen, the creators of the much-loved Aisling character and the popular Facebook page 'Oh My God, What a Complete Aisling', bring Aisling to life in their novel about the quintessential country girl in the big smoke.

Aisling is twenty-eight and she’s a complete ... Aisling. She lives at home in Ballygobbard (or Ballygobackwards, as some gas tickets call it) with her parents and commutes to her good job at PensionsPlus in Dublin.

Aisling goes out every Saturday night with her best friend Majella, who is a bit of a hames (she’s lost two phones already this year – Aisling has never lost a phone(. They love hoofing into the Coors Light if they’re 'Out', or the vodka and Diet Cokes if they re 'Out Out'.

Ais spends two nights a week at her boyfriend John’s. He’s from down home and was kiss number seventeen at her twenty-first.

But Aisling wants more. She wants the ring on her finger. She wants the hen with the willy straws. She wants out of her parents’ house, although she’d miss Mammy turning on the electric blanket like clockwork and Daddy taking her car 'out for a spin' and bringing it back full of petrol.

When a week in Tenerife with John doesn’t end with the expected engagement, Aisling calls a halt to things and soon she has surprised herself and everyone else by agreeing to move into a three-bed in Portobello with stylish Sadhbh from HR and her friend, the mysterious Elaine.

Newly single and relocated to the big city, life is about to change utterly for this wonderful, strong, surprising and funny girl, who just happens to be a complete Aisling.

About this title

Review:

Oh lads! This book! There aren't enough words for how much I love it. It's feicin' HILAIRE and very touching (Marian Keyes)

Excellent craic that'll have you shedding a tear as well as laughing your socks off (Fabulous Magazine)

It's sweet and it's funny and it's moving and it's perfect (The Pool)

An utter ray of sunshine (Red)

Both Aisling and the novel have a great big thumping heart (Eithne Shortall Sunday Times)

I've spent the last forty-eight hours laughing my head off at this novel . . . but it's not just comic, there's a real heart to it and it's often very moving (John Boyne)

This book is the funniest, warmest, loveliest book I've read in so long. The characters are so hilarious and relatable, I laughed non-stop and genuinely didn't want it to end (Lucy Vine)

One of my fave novels of 2017. It really does remind me of Marian Keyes (Louise O'Neill)

If I had a book of the year award for 2017 it would go to Oh My God, What a Complete Aisling . . . It left me giggling at some pages and sobbing at others (Sinead Crowley)

A book so good, so funny, that it made two strangers talk to each other on a London tube train (Sarra Manning Red)

About the Author:

Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen are Aislings. Maybe not complete Aislings but about 42%. The Aisling character was conceived in their Stoneybatter sitting room in 2008, when they began to observe the many traits, characteristics and quirks of a very particular type of Irish girl; one they identified around them and one they identified with.

Emer McLysaght is the former editor of The Daily Edge and has worked extensively in journalism and radio.

Sarah Breen is a journalist whose work has appeared in Stellar, Image, U, the Irish Independent and The Gloss.

About this edition

• Publisher: Gill Books
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0717175537
• ISBN 13: 9780717175536
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272