- Published: 15 July 2016
- ISBN: 9781784161132
- Imprint: Black Swan Ireland
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 240
- RRP: $24.99
Hopscotch
A Memoir
- Published: 15 July 2016
- ISBN: 9781784161132
- Imprint: Black Swan Ireland
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 240
- RRP: $24.99
Quite brilliant; beautifully, cleverly observed; funny, heart-breaking.
Roddy Doyle
Brilliantly written and absolutely hilarious. Hilary is an extraordinary writer and Hopscotch is destined to become a classic of the form.
Donal Ryan
Hilary Fannin carries the reader deep into the mind of a little girl baffled by the world around in her candid, intoxicating memoir . . . a lucid, crystalline and intoxicating style. Hopscotch tells a private story with candour and exactitude, love and understanding, artfulness and wit.
Carlo Gebler, Irish Times
Truly extraordinary and lyrical prose . . . a hymn of boundless love and gratitude and redemption . . . this rather wonderful book.
Brenda Power, Sunday Times
Hopscotch is searingly honest, hilariously funny and utterly memorable.
Mary Shine Thompson, Irish Independent
Consistently funny, frequently touching and full of passages studded with sharp observation, impressive psychological insight and surreal invention . . . a small masterpiece.
Enda O'Doherty, Dublin Review of Books
Hopscotch captures the joys, fears and bewilderments of a 1960s Dublin childhood through the wonderful prism of an innocent young girl’s puzzled attempts to navigate the muddy waters of her parents’ world. It is written with a deft sleight of hand that makes it wonderfully funny and moving.
Dermot Bolger, Sunday Independent
The most moving memoir I’ve read since Nuala O Faolain’s Are You Somebody? A mesmeric, evocative tour de force.
Joe Duffy
Completely enthralling; poignant, vivid, laugh-out-loud moments.
Catherine Dunne
The best book I read last year. A heartbreaking story masterfully written.
Paul Howard