Author Estelle Birdy set to launch of her debut novel in Dundalk's Roe River Books

Estelle Birdy will be in Roe River Books for the Dundalk launch of her debut novel Ravelling this evenig, Friday June 14^th at 7pm.

Estelle, who grew up in Blackrock, Co. Louth and attended St. Vincent’s Secondary School, is a writer, poet, book critic and yoga teacher who lives with her family in Dublin.

Her debut novel Ravelling was a winner of the Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair in 2020. Her work is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland.

Set in Dublin's liberties, Estelle’s explosively original debut Ravelling channels the energies and agonies of young men let loose in the city, their city, navigating the tumultuous trajectory of youth and young manhood, where they balance their hopes with the harsh realities of their present.  

Hurtling between friendships, feuds, drug-deals, family and brushes with the law, this is modern Dublin as never before portrayed.

Ravelling follows Deano, a weed-smoking hurling star, living with his aunt in an about-to-be-demolished flat; Hamza, a Pakistani Muslim atheist and precocious academic, who sells his ADHD drugs to the kids in a private school; Oisín, empathetic and iron-willed, who has begun to see his dead brother at the end of his bed; Congolese nature lover, Benit, who just wants to relax and hurl with the lads; Karl, a maybe-gay fashionista, dreaming of something better while immersing himself in his art.

“We are delighted to honour a writer from Dundalk on the occasion of their debut work”, a spokesperson for Roe River Books said.

This event is free but it is essential to book on Eventbrite at the following link: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/903288619577?aff=oddtdtcreator