Oh My God, What a Complete Aisling

Aisling is twenty-eight. She lives at home in Ballygobbard with her parents and commutes to her “good” job at Pensions Plus in Dublin.

Aisling goes out every Saturday night with her best friend Majella, who is a bit chaotic and disorganised - (she’s lost two phones already this year – Aisling has never lost a phone).

Aisling spends two nights a week at her boyfriend John’s. He’s from down home and was kiss number seventeen at her twenty-first.

But Aisling wants more. She wants the ring on her finger. She wants the hen party with all the nonsense, feather boas, and pink sashes. She wants out of her parents’ house, although she’d miss Mammy turning on the electric blanket like clockwork and Daddy taking her car 'out for a spin' and bringing it back full of petrol.

When a week in Tenerife with John doesn’t end with the expected engagement, Aisling calls a halt to things and soon she has surprised herself and everyone else by agreeing to move into a three-bedroom apartment in Portobello with stylish Sadhbh from HR and her friend, the mysterious Elaine.

Newly single and relocated to the big city, life is about to change utterly for this wonderful, strong, surprising and funny girl, who just happens to be a complete Aisling.

Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen, the creators of the much-loved Aisling character and the popular Facebook page 'Oh My God, What a Complete Aisling', bring Aisling to life in their novel about the quintessential country girl in the big smoke. This is the first book in a series of four! It’s a really sweet book, ideal for holidays, and totally relatable.

Submitted by Denise