Dinner Party by Sarah Gilmartin
Kate has taught herself to be careful, to be meticulous. To mark the anniversary of a death in the family, she plans a dinner party - from the fancy table settings to the perfect Baked Alaska waiting in the freezer. Yet by the end of the night, old tensions have flared, the guests have fled, and Kate is spinning out of control. But all we have is ourselves, her father once said, all we have is family. Set between the 1990s and the present day, from a farmhouse in Carlow to Trinity College, Dublin, Dinner Party is a dark, sharply observed debut that thrillingly unravels into family secrets and tragedy. As the past catches up with the present, Kate learns why, despite everything, we can't help returning home.
'Sarah Gilmartin is a natural writer: she gives us terrific, complex characters and strong themes, in prose that is fluent and charged with insight' - Anne Enright, Booker Prize-winning author of THE GATHERING
'Sarah Gilmartin's depiction of an Irish family across the decades leaves the reader in no doubt how complicated love can beA brilliant debut' - John Boyne, bestselling author of THE HEART'S INVISIBLE FURIES
'The search is off - here is our next read. Here is an expert writer... Taut, compelling, Enright-esque' - Meg Mason, author of SORROW AND BLISS
'I loved her clean, forensic writing. Gilmartin is clearly a writer to watch' - Clare Chambers, author of Women's Prize Longlisted SMALL PLEASURES
'Astutely captures the claustrophobia of Irish families - disappointments, rivalry and the need to make everyone happy' - Sinead Gleeson, author of CONSTELLATIONS
'Sarah Gilmartin's depiction of an Irish family across the decades leaves the reader in no doubt how complicated love can beA brilliant debut' - John Boyne, bestselling author of THE HEART'S INVISIBLE FURIES
'The search is off - here is our next read. Here is an expert writer... Taut, compelling, Enright-esque' - Meg Mason, author of SORROW AND BLISS
'I loved her clean, forensic writing. Gilmartin is clearly a writer to watch' - Clare Chambers, author of Women's Prize Longlisted SMALL PLEASURES
'Astutely captures the claustrophobia of Irish families - disappointments, rivalry and the need to make everyone happy' - Sinead Gleeson, author of CONSTELLATIONS
Sarah Gilmartin's short stories have been published in The Dublin Review, The Tangerine and The Stinging Fly. She won the Máirtín Crawford Short Story Award in 2020. Her novels Dinner Party: A Tragedy (2021), Service (2023) and the forthcoming Little Vanities (2026) are published by ONE. She was the 2025 Arts Council Writer-in-Residence at Dublin City University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781911590569 |
| ISBN 10 | 1911590561 |
| Title | Dinner Party |
| Author | Sarah Gilmartin |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Pushkin Press |
| Year published | 2021-09-16 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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