Following the death of her best friend, Erin has to get out of London. Returning home to Belfast, anau pair job provides a partial refuge from her griefand her volatile relationship with her mother. Erins pends late nights at the bar where her childhoodfriend Declan works.

There she meets an Americanacademic who is also looking to get lost. Parallelto this she reconnects with an old flame, Mikey.This brings its own web of complications.

With a startlingly fresh and original voice - jarringly funny, cranky, often hungover - Lazy City depicts the strange, meandering aftermath that follows disaster.