Colm Tóibín was born in Enniscorthy in 1955. He is the author of eleven novels including The Master, Brooklyn, The Testament of Mary, and The Magician. His work has been shortlisted for the Booker three times, and won the Costa Novel Award, the Rathbones Folio Prize and the Impac Award. He has also published two collections of stories and many works of non-fiction.
A broad and beautifully worked canvas . . . An imaginative, deeply
felt and evocative tale
*Sunday Times*
A daring, imaginative feat; the world it conjures is at once
familiar and strange, and strangely moving. A splendid first
novel
*John Banville*
This is a strong and moving work of fiction about the hard truths
of changing one's life. Colm Tóibín, like his characters, never
says too much and never lets us grow too comfortable. A grand
achievement
*Don DeLillo*
Colm Tóibín writes prose of a heartbreaking beauty.
*Hilary Mantel*
Clever, evocative and intelligent
*Irish Times*
The story is told with spare, simple elegance
*London Review of Books*
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