(Published by Tivoli)
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Do you live in Dublin? If you do you are bound to have a Bono story, like the time you saw him on Grafton Street, or how he offered to carry your Granny’s shopping, or you saw him sitting at the bar in some hip and trendy nightclub. This is the premise for Anne-Marie O’Connor’s book.
Aoife doesn’t have a Bono story, in fact after the Monday from hell Aoife doesn’t have a job or anywhere to live. Using Rory as a shoulder to cry on and plenty of alcohol purely for medicinal purposes, she ends up accepting a bet, if Aoife can engineer a meeting with the man himself, Rory will give her 5,000 an offer she can hardly refuse. Thus ensues the desperate hunt for Bono, resorting to dressing up as a nun and hanging out at Dublin airport at all sort of ungodly hours doesn’t seem to be working and Aoife is getting desperate.
Underneath the manic pace and frivolous nature of the novel, O’Connor addresses two more serious issues; Aoife’s relationship with her mother and Rory’s ongoing everyday battle with his homophobic father.
O’Connor’s debut novel is hilarious, well written and pacey the reader is completely swept up in the hunt for Bono. 
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