'Beautiful, compelling, thought-provoking... An uncompromising reflection on what it means to be of Irish heritage today, whether at home or abroad'
- Tara Flynn
'Stunning. A work of great emotional and intellectual heft... Truth and honesty shine out of every line'
- Mary Costello, author of Academy Street
'Painfully familiar in its account of family loss and trauma in the urban working class, and personal enough never to feel like a survey or aerial view of Irish women's history. Sensitively written and quietly devastating, it's the book I had been waiting for'
- Niamh Campbell, award-winning author of This Happy
'A vivid, evocative and resonant counterpoint of time, memory and meaning'
- Joseph O'Connor, award-winning author of Shadowplay
'In Ordinary Time is the best kind of memoir, a braid of the personal and political, the spiritual and global'
- Cameron Dezen Hammon, award-winning author of This is My Body
'Magnificent... Spare, pristine, bracing - a marvellous book'
- Carlo Gebler, author of Confessions of a Catastrophist
'Quietly addictive, deeply moving and enlightening'
- Priscilla Morris, author of Black Butterflies