Lauren Foley

Writer/Artist

Polluted Sex in The Guardian (UK)

Cropped top half of Polluted Sex book with bookmark held – park path and lake in background

Polluted Sex book cover Lauren Foley

Text: ‘Uncompromising and raw. A new voice in Irish fiction.’ June Caldwell

Image: dark peach book naked woman sitting rear view stars motif

What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in June

Sinéad Gleeson, Gurnaik Johal and Guardian readers discuss the titles they’ve read over the last month.

Sinéad Gleeson:

Ireland, where I’m from, is not short of great writers and recent impressive work includes short stories from Lauren Foley – Polluted Sex, a pithy, transgressive collection of gender and bodies

– and Wendy Erskine’s comic brilliance in Dance Move. A contender for novel of the year also happens to be Irish: Louise Kennedy’s aching Troubles-set, Trespasses. In poetry, there were standout works from Jessica Traynor in Pit Lullabies and Victoria Kennefick’s Eat or We Both Starve.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jun/30/what-were-reading-writers-and-readers-on-the-books-they-enjoyed-in-june