An astonishing balancing act by a great writer prepared to take risks. A book to treasure

Daily Mail

A blockbuster, groundbreaking, heartbreaking, symphony of a novel ... No novelist writing of New York has climbed higher, dived deeper

Frank McCourt

McCann has reinvented the city of New York in all its breathing, fighting, whining, joyous clamour

Peter Carey, Observer Books of the Year

A wow of a novel - rich, humane, brilliantly written and as deep as it is wide

The Times

This is a gorgeous book, multilayered and deeply felt, and it's a damned lot of fun to read, too. Leave it to an Irishman to write one of the greatest-ever novels about New York. There's so much passion and humor and pure lifeforce on every page of Let the Great World Spin that you'll find yourself giddy, dizzy, overwhelmed

Dave Eggers

One of the most electric, profound novels…in years. Let the Great World Spin is an emotional tour de force

New York Times Book Review