Colm Toibin was born in Enniscorthy in 1955. He is the author of eight novels including Blackwater Lightship, The Master and The Testament of Mary, all three of which were nominated for the Booker Prize, with The Master also winning the IMPAC Award, and Brooklyn, which won the Costa Novel Award. He has also published two collections of stories and many works of non-fiction. His most recent novel is Nora Webster. He lives in Dublin.
With this elating and humane novel, Colm Tóibín has produced a
masterwork
*Sunday Times*
The most compelling and moving portrait of a young woman I have
read in a long time
*Guardian, Books of the Year*
A work of such skill, understatement and sly jewelled merriment
could haunt your life
*TLS, Books of the Year*
Suffused with humane depth, funny, affecting, deftly plotted ... a
novel of magnificent accomplishment
*Sunday Times, Novel of the Year*
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