Longlisted for the 2017 Desmond Elliott Prize Ithaca, the ferociously funny and unbelievably poignant debut novel from Alan McMonagle, combines a fiercely emotional story with crackling prose. This was the summer after all the money disappeared. One minute it was here.

The next it had vanished. All of it. Without trace …Now that all the money had vanished everyone had their eyes and ears ready for all manner of doom.