It is, simply, perfect

Irish Examiner

Majestic

Sunday Times

Quite simply one of the best, most sustained pieces of fiction I've read in some time ... A novel of true resonance and power

Independent

His vivid, reactive and heartfelt fiction lives and breathes, sighs and weeps

Eileen Battersby, Irish Times

Beautifully hypnotic … Those who can't see the point of historical novels will find their answer here

Emma Donoghue, author of Room

A very gifted, charming writer; in full, rhapsodic-onrush mode, he is hard to resist

Guardian