Bryan Moriarty’s fun debut captures the wasteland of our 20s
Book review
Sounds Like Fun by Bryan Moriarty
Liadán Hynes
Sounds Like Fun is the debut novel of Irish author Bryan Moriarty, the 2021 winner of the Irish Writers Centre’s First Novel Prize.
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