'A book of blazing honesty that allows all the gorgeous complexity of the past into our messy present to remind us we've always been like this'
- Max Porter
'Really REALLY good'
- Siobhan McSweeney
'Boyle has the skill to move us between the raw and the refined, the mind and the body, the past and the present, the mundane and the marvellous without ever losing control of her dark materials'
- Fintan O'Toole
'An astounding piece of writing'
- David Perry
'Just as brilliant and hard to define as everyone says it is. You should read it. You will both learn things and be entertained'
- Jan Carson
'An eloquent plea for the value of curiosity and the life of the mind, standing up the robustness of scholarship against the frailty of individuals, the resilience of myth against brittle daily preoccupations. It's an agile story, irreverent, capacious and constantly surprising: like nothing else you will read'
- Hilary Mantel
'Pure nectar for the imagination, and it's my book of 2022'
- Clodagh Finn, Irish Examiner
'Bracingly honest, fiery, funny, scholarly, Fierce Appetites really is a wildly good book'
- Hilary Fannin
'I just love it'
- John Connolly
'Unusual, arresting and genuinely enriching'
- Sharon Arbuthnot, Irish Times
'Highly original . . . engagingly candid [and] thought-provoking'
- Martina Devlin, Irish Independent
'I loved this luminous, radical book about bodies in time. It is a deeply personal history, that simultaneously brings medieval myth and poetry to breathing, bleeding life. An education for the mind and the heart'
- Clare Pollard