Emer McLysaght & Sarah Breen: Our Deadly Summer

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Sunday 12 July 2026

8:30 pm

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Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen are back with their brand new novel Our Deadly Summer as they bring their trademark Aisling humour in a completely new direction. This is a hilarious and heartfelt story about friendship, young women and bad men. With noughties nostalgia and a dead body, it’s the novel you didn’t know you needed.   

Admission: €20

Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen. Photo: Bríd O'Donovan.

Laura and Dee said they’d never let a man get in the way of their friendship. And now they haven’t spoken since the day they buried a body together… It was supposed to be the best summer of their lives. A break from university, from parents, from wasting their time on Irish boys with farmer’s tans. They’d imagined flirting with Ryan Phillippe on a New York rooftop. Instead, with summer jobs waitressing at a country club on Long Island, pickings are slim. Mikey is a bully. Marco is off limits. Jose is angry. Mr Haight is a sleaze. Josh is too keen. And other Josh… he’s something else entirely. It’s a miracle only one of them ends up dead. Dee is pretty sure she didn’t mean to kill him. Laura, to her credit, never asked. Not until she sends an email, out of the blue, more than twenty years later. It’s finally time to mend the biggest heartbreak of that summer; Laura wants her best friend back.  

Writers

Emer McLysaght

Emer McLysaght co-authored the Aisling series of books alongside Sarah Breen. Oh My God, What a Complete Aisling was the bestselling fiction title of 2017 in Ireland and its sequel,...

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Sarah Breen

Sarah Breen co-authored the Aisling series of books alongside Emer McLysaght. Oh My God, What a Complete Aisling was the bestselling fiction title of 2017 in Ireland and its sequel,...

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