Toibin is a master of the unsaid, of the spaces between words, of the long, slow textures of quiet lives * Guardian *
He has an almost uncanny ability to inhabit the interior lives of his characters with an absolute lack of sentimentality or judgment * TLS *
What makes Toibin one of our finest contemporary writers is his dual power as a fierce cultural critic and a novelist of immense, delicate intuition. He operates with a journalist's eye for hard fact and a poet's ear for the weight of a pause * New Yorker *
A writer at the height of his considerable powers * The Guardian *