'An untamed dreamtime held together by stories, this is a wild river-run of a novel about Ireland's dark histories, narrated in the merry voice we associate with Emer Martin, one of our truly original writers. Her wry humour gives the grimmest stories an exuberant buoyancy. And seldom has English as spoken in Ireland - from rural Tyrone to south Dublin suburbia - been so perfectly conveyed on the page.' Eilis Ni Dhuibhne
'Emer Martin casts a cold eye on Ireland and the Irish in this layered narrative which ranges from myths to myth-busting over the comforting fictions we tell ourselves.' Martina Devlin
'Inventive, freewheeling and utterly fearless, Thirsty Ghosts delves into the Irish psyche with no holds barred. An incisive and intriguing novel.' Christine Dwyer Hickey
'There is ambition and then there is the Great Irish Novel kind of ambition that is in Emer Martin's Thirsty Ghosts ... It is a fine balance of the savagely funny and heartbreaking.' THE BOOKSELLER