When Hannah Adger’s classmate succumbs to a violent and mysterious illness, it marks the beginning of a summer like no other. Bursting with Carson’s trademark wit, profound empathy and soaring imagination, The Raptures explores how tragedy can unite a small community – and tear it apart.

“Heart-rending, hilarious . . . it’s a belter” Louise Kennedy

Jan Carson is a writer and community arts facilitator. Her second novel, The Fire Starters (2019), won the EU Prize for Literature and was shortlisted for the Dalkey Novel of the Year Award.

Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan is a Dublin-based writer, performer, and cultural consultant, whose work has been published in the Irish Chair of Poetry’s Hold Open the Door anthology, and Queering the Green, amongst others.