The Forgotten Waltz

a very human tale about passion, secrets and lies.

Reading Matters

That's the Anne Enright voice all right - wry, disabused, reckless, candid, funny

Hermione Lee, Guardian

This beautifully written, lyrical novel is a portrait of family tensions and the listless half-light in which a mistress must live

Jane Clinton, Sunday Express

Enright has taken a simple plot and produced a touching novel that examines the cost - and the compensations - of love. The heroine is both plausible and sympathetic, while the supporting cast is marshalled with skill, tenderness and humour

Max Davidson, Mail on Sunday

A simply and beautifully told tale

Lady

A simple tale of adultery and its consequences, told from a female perspective…Enright risks an over-familiarity of the subject matter, but she has brought it off superbly

Daily Telegraph

Enright is brilliant on the emotional battlefields and dance floors that exist between men and women… Smartingly funny and profoundly wise

Metro

The Forgotten Waltz delicately weaves the personal and political into a wry, tender exploration of family, marriage and the price of passion

Sorcha Hamilton, Irish Times

The latest novel from the Booker Prize winning author has an emotional heft that belies the novel’s slender size

Sunday Business Post Ireland

A brilliant evocation of an ill-fated extramarital; affair, told with Enright’s customary sharp wit and knack for spotting a love-related cliché

Guardian, Holiday Reads:

Brave, beautiful and quite brilliant

Joseph O’Connor, Irish Independent

An achingly brilliant piece of writing on passion and delusion. It's a pleasure to read from start to finish and reignites our love for fiction

Independent