The Festival Book Club will be joined by Aingeala Flannery to discuss her book, The Amusements. This book is filled with great characters and stories set in a coastal town where family, friendships and small town life seems mundane to the locals but it's holiday bliss for the visitors. Clonmel readers familiar with Tramore will enjoy The Amusements. Copies of will be available for loan from Clonmel Library for ticket holders prior to the event.‍Aingeala Flannery was born in Waterford. She is a novelist, short story writer and journalist. Her debut novel The Amusements was published by Penguin in June 2022, and was shortlisted for the An Post Irish Book Awards and the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year. Aingeala holds an MFA in Creative Writing from UCD and is the recipient of two Arts Council Literature Bursaries. She lives in Dublin and is working on her second novel.