We Were Young is a truly exceptional novel, by an exceptional writer'
- Adrian Duncan
'A beguiling, remarkable work of art. It renders exquisitely the melancholy of living in an always changing Dublin, and of family sorrow which is always threatening to break through the surface of its silence. It feels like an instant classic of Irish literature'
- Megan Nolan
'We Were Young captures an Ireland I've never before seen in print, namely the erotic and artistic lives of a generation displaced. It is a stunning book that cracked me open more than once. Campbell's sentences are nothing short of magnificent.'
- Sue Rainsford