Reading in the Dark

Reading In The Dark is a swift, masterful transformation of family griefs and political violence into something at once rhapsodic and heartbreaking. If Isaac Babel had been born in Derry, he might have written this sudden, brilliant book.

Seamus Heaney

A profoundly emotive and seamlessly structured exploration of loss and regret. It is also funny and authentic. What more could one ask of a book?

Antonia Logue, Guardian

A wonderful evocation of childhood; a vibrant, unforgettable fragment that leaves you aching for more

Robert McCrum, Observer

Go into your nearest bookshop and buy Reading In The Dark... A novel that no reader with any concern for their heart or mind should be without

A. L. Kennedy, Scotsman

In language strikingly lucid and scenes fired by a spare, aching passion, Reading in the Dark combines the intimacy of a memoir with the suspense of a detective story

New York Times

Marvellous...almost impossible to put down

Blake Morrison, Independent on Sunday

This is the work of a master story-teller...a book to buy, read and read again

Julia Neuberger, Sunday Tribune