Aisling and the City: Loveable comic creation takes her sensible shoes to the Big Apple

The fourth instalment of the Aisling series is every bit as amusing and appealing as its previous incarnations

Sarah Breen and Emer McLysaght: Aisling’s fourth outing takes her to the glitzy world of New York event planning. Picture: Al Higgins

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Aisling and the City

By Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen

Gill, €14.99

If there’s one character in the literature of this country whose feet are firmly planted on Irish soil, that character is surely Aisling. After all, Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen’s much-loved creation began as a Facebook group celebrating a very specific type of sensible, small-town Irish girl. Aisling may go on holiday to Berlin or Tenerife, but it’s hard to imagine her ...