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Biographical note
Colm Tóibín was born in Enniscorthy in 1955. He is the author of nine novels including The Master, Brooklyn, The Testament of Mary and Nora Webster and, most recently, House of Names. His work has been shortlisted for the Booker three times, won the Costa Novel Award and the Impac Award. He has also published two collections of stories and many works of non-fiction. He lives in Dublin.With this elating and humane novel, Colm Tóibín has produced a masterwork
Sunday Times
The most compelling and moving portrait of a young woman I have read in a long time
- Zoë Heller, Guardian, Books of the Year
A work of such skill, understatement and sly jewelled merriment could haunt your life
- Ali Smith, TLS, Books of the Year
Suffused with humane depth, funny, affecting, deftly plotted ... a novel of magnificent accomplishment
- Peter Kemp, Sunday Times, Novel of the Year
<i>Brooklyn </i>moved me more than any other book this year
- Nicholas Hytner, Observer, Books of the Year
A beautifully crafted work that transformed ordinary lives into something extraordinary
Daily Telegraph, Books of the Year
No book this year gave me greater pleasure
- Nell Freudenberger, Financial Times
Not a sentence or a thought out of place. It takes over as his finest ficiton to date
Irish Times
Remarkable freshness and immediacy ... with a lovely comedic lightness
Daily Mail
A lovely, thoughtful book ... alive with authentic detail, moved along by the ripples of affection and doubt that shape any life: a novel that offers the reader serious pleasure
Daily Telegraph
Tremendously moving and powerful
New Statesman
Full of sly fun, lovely comic observation and an almost tangible pleasure in storytelling
Observer
Refreshingly authentic . . . Eilis is so vivid it's difficult to believe she did not actually exist
Financial Times