Binding: Paperback
Date Published: 15 Jun 2023
'This is a generous mosaic of a novel about the staying power of love and pride and history and family. While Donal Ryan is never afraid of all the meanness and sorrow of the world, he also manages to excavate the thrilling beauties that hold us together. He manages, with wit and grace, to illuminate the anonymous corners of human experience and get at the underworld of our souls.'
- Colum McCann
'Donal Ryan is one of the finest novelists writing today and this is a gem of a novel. Full of humanity, humility, humour, drama and mystery, his characters are so vivid you feel they are sitting outside, waiting for him to conjure them to life. He writes with grace and precision, with love indeed, about who we are and why, about family history and the ghosts we carry. A haunting, exquisite masterpiece.'
- Rachel Joyce
'From its opening pages, this book exerts a quiet, propulsive hold over its reader. The three generations of Aylward women will break your heart and then put it back together again. It's a beautiful, compassionate novel - Donal Ryan at his inimitable best.'
- Maggie O'Farrell
'>Beautifully poised, sad, poetic and human....I loved every single line.'
- Ian Rankin
'Ryan's writing is so musical, so easily heard, that your eyes will dance through its pages.'
- Joanna Cannon, Guardian Book of the Day