Lisa McInerney, who recently won the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction for The Glorious Heresies, added the £10,000 (about $14,805) Desmond Elliott Prize for debut novelists to her list of honors. Chair of judges Iain Pears said: "We knew we had found a major literary figure of the next generation when we made our choice last month--it's good to see other prize judges have subsequently agreed with us. Lisa is a genuinely exciting writer--there is electricity running through her prose. This is a complex, unusual, violent book, bleak but with welcome humor, and she manages a huge cast with confidence; there is never any doubt that she is in complete control, right to the unexpected but perfect ending. I know what it is to try and control a complicated text, and spent years learning my trade. She has done it on her first outing, and that is close to astounding."
