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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.Colm Tóibín's new collection is the work of an author at the peak of his writing powers
The Times
Always deeply moving, the stories here - like the surf-washed pebbles on that Wexford beach - will be read for meaning and enjoyed for their shape and sound for ages to come
Tribune
It's a collection that will only further fuel Tóibín's ascent through English fiction
Independent on Sunday
Exquisite . . . The chief reason to read these stories is the peculiar power of Colm Tóibín's prose
Telegraph
Astonishingly precise, depicting complex and conflicted states of mind with rare clarity
Observer
Beautifully observed
Sunday Times
Tóibín's deceptively straightforward style continues to manage somehow to encompass both lucidity and ambiguity, precision and poetry
Irish Times
Exquisite
Metro, Fiction of the Week
These stories are always intensely interesting and sometimes profoundly provocative
Irish Independent
Perfect; and as good as the best of William Trevor, than which there can be no higher praise
Scotsman