Aisling (book series)
series of novels by Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen
The Aisling (sometimes referred to as OMGWACA) series of novels are five adult fiction books by Irish journalists and authors Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen. The series began with Oh My God, What a Complete Aisling The Novel, based on an "Aisling" (or "Ais") character archetype created by the authors and discussed in the "oh my god what a complete aisling" Facebook group. There are five books total in the series. They were published by Gill Books and Penguin Books. The series was optioned as a film before being worked into a yet-to-be-produced TV series.
Description
Aisling began as a stock character type, a "culchie" from "Ballygobackwards" (BGB), up in the "big smoke" Dublin. Other stock characters, Mad Tom Deddeh, Memmeh, Niamh and Fionn, all from "Across The Road" (FATR) were used by users in posts to describe Aisling's life and eccentricities. About Aisling, Sarra Manning, of Red Online, wrote that readers "laugh with her, never at her ... [admiring] her for the same traits that we don't necessarily value in ourselves. We love her because she's a complete Aisling and we wouldn't have her any other way".
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