'Sublime ... McDermott's simple prose is full of poetic distillations that capture a mood or a moment just so, and it all comes together in a radiant portrait of family life'

Daily Mail

'McDermott has laid bare the nerve centre of a family, and located an enduring grace in the constraints and confusion of day-to-day life'

Times Literary Supplement

'A beautifully etched portrait of how generations are never as sure as they seem about their interpretation of the world around them. Wonderful reading'

Good Housekeeping

'The triumph of Alice McDermott's After This is its evocation of childhood ... Written with a remarkable attentiveness ... McDermott's unshowy, succinct sentences summon up the flavour of the past when it was new'

Sunday Times