{"id":435338,"date":"2026-05-06T15:43:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T15:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/435338\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T15:43:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T15:43:25","slug":"rituals-review-danielle-mclaughlins-unlikely-heroine-challenges-habits-of-a-lifetime-with-new-lodger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/435338\/","title":{"rendered":"Rituals review: Danielle McLaughlin\u2019s unlikely heroine challenges habits of a lifetime with new lodger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nFiction\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Author Danielle McLaughlin. Photo: Ros Kavanagh\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/annielle McLaughlin.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Author Danielle McLaughlin. Photo: Ros Kavanagh<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Cork writer Danielle McLaughlin was a late starter in the writing game, but since her debut short story collection was published 11 years ago, she\u2019s heaped success upon success. Rituals, her second novel, brings more of her precisely crafted prose, offering a quietly devastating portrait of a woman unravelling and somehow, subtly pulling the threads of herself back together.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">In Rituals, we get to the very heart of Joan, a \u00admiddle-aged \u00adcivil servant who\u2019s been \u00adabruptly placed on leave \u00adafter a workplace incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fiction Author Danielle McLaughlin. Photo: Ros Kavanagh Cork writer Danielle McLaughlin was a late starter in the writing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,6992,80],"class_list":["post-435338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-people-culture-magazine","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}