“Her win won’t please everyone,” predicted Gertler. We were all – and I’m going to use that ghastly Apprentice jargon - 110% agreed Margaret Mountford by the least conventional and edgiest writer on the list, whose big, gritty and compelling novel about Ireland’s dark underbelly features a cast of alcoholics, drug dealers and prostitutes, leaving a trail of sex, violence and crime in their wake”. Frances Gertler at Foyles bookshop said McInerney’s win was a “brave choice. Her other rivals included Yanagihara’s bestselling A Little Life, which was shortlisted for the Booker.
We all thought it was the right choice,” Mountford said The Green Road – won the Irish novel of the year award from the Kerry Group last week.
“We were all – and I’m going to use that ghastly Apprentice jargon - 110% agreed. Mountford added: “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.” Chair of judges Margaret Mountford, the former lawyer who is best known for her role on The Apprentice, praised the book’s “freshness and vibrancy”, describing it as “a superbly original, compassionate novel that delivers insights into the very darkest of lives through humour and skilful storytelling.”
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