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Dinner Party
A General Fiction Novel by Sarah Gilmartin
Subgenres:
- Family Saga,
- Coming-of-Age,
- Irish Fiction
This book is for you if you're into...
- Irish family sagas unraveling over a disastrous dinner party
- Food imagery that shifts from mouth-watering to deeply unsettling
- Sibling relationships strained by secrets and grief
From Little Stack
If you’re craving a novel that doesn’t just hover over dinner party small talk but dives headfirst into the un-said, the unsavoury, and the unintended then Dinner Party: A Tragedy by Sarah Gilmartin is absolutely your dinner-table read of the year.
Meet Kate Gleeson: she’s thrown a dinner party in her Dublin flat to mark the sixteenth anniversary of something horrifying in the family. Everything is polished and arranged. Perfect. Until it isn’t. By the end of the night the guests are gone, dessert is in the bin, and Kate’s façade is starting to crumble.
What makes this book so compelling is how it turns a seemingly elegant evening into the tipping point for old family feuds, buried grief, and personal standards so high they’re strangling.
So why you should read it: because you’ll get food imagery that’s almost mouth-watering, then entirely unsettling. You’ll get a dinner party where everything should go smoothly, until it explodes. And you’ll get characters that feel like your own messy relatives. The prose is sharp, bittersweet, and absolutely alive.
A remarkable Irish family saga about the messiness of modern family life—a major debut from a blazing new talent that's already an international sensation.
A riveting, beautifully written, and poignant coming-of-age story about the heartrending complications of sibling relationships and the trauma of family secrets, perfect for fans of Kate Atkinson, Maggie O'Farrell, and Anne Enright.
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 told with sharp, elegant humour that thrillingly unravels into family secrets and tragedy.
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