The Blamed

Skilful, evocative and moving … This is one of those books that stays with you after you’ve read it - Sinead Moriarty

Part psychological thriller, part literary family drama, part sun-soaked nostalgic noir and a must-read - Sunday Independent

Praise for Emily Hourican - :

[A] lively and entertaining saga of friendship, family and fate - Sunday Independent

[Hourican] has perfected the high-wire feat between lush description and keeping the plot shuttling along at a pleasing pace … As with most great writing, The Privileged packs plenty of truth and social commentary beneath its story - Irish Independent

You won’t be able to put it down - Stellar magazine

Vibrant characters, finely-observed social backdrops and universal themes of love, friendship and survival … The Privileged is well-written, thoughtful commercial fiction that tells a compelling story … A Circle of Friends for the 21st century - Irish Times

Emily Hourican is the author of nine novels and one book of non-fiction. Her first novel, The Privileged, was published in 2016, became an instant bestseller, and was short-listed for the Best Popular Fiction Award at the Irish Book Awards that year. She then published three more works of contemporary fiction, the last of which, The Outsider, is being developed as a six-part TV series with Treasure Films, with Emily as screenwriter, supported by Screen Ireland.

In 2019 she began writing historical fiction, and has since published four acclaimed, best-selling historical novels based on the Guinness and Kennedy families.

Emily is also an award-winning editor and journalist with the Sunday Independent,

Ireland’s biggest-selling newspaper.