Caoilinn Hughes

Hilarious, poignant and utterly fresh, The Wild Laughter cements Caoilinn Hughes' position as one of Ireland's most audacious, nuanced and insightful young writers....

“A gem of a novel.”—Elle “A winning debut.”—The New Yorker “Caoilinn Hughes is a massive talent.”—Anthony Doerr, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All the Light We Cannot See WINNER OF THE COLLYER BRISTOW PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE BUTLER LITERARY AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR...

“A bold, beautiful, complex novel, and I can’t wait to read what Hughes writes next. She, too, is an unstoppable force.” —New York Times Book Review “A tale about sisterhood, a novel of ideas, a chronicle of our collective follies, a requiem for our agonizing species, The Alternatives...