'Characters all but leap off the page with believability in these marvellous stories of life (and death) in Belfast' Sunday Times
Bernard MacLaverty lives in Glasgow. He has written five previous collections of stories and five novels, including Grace Notes, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and Midwinter Break, the Bord Gais Energy Irish Novel of the Year. He has written versions of his fiction for other media - radio and television plays, screenplays and libretti.
Not since J.D. Salinger's For Esme With Love and Squalor
have I enjoyed so much a collection of stories. I mean pleasure -
real pleasure. -- Paul Durcan * The Cork Examiner *
MacLaverty is one of the best practitioners of the genre we have. *
New Statesman *
His prose is invisible, free of tricks, as though it was your own
thoughts. * Observer *
Beautifully constructed, minutely observed, filled with the poetry
of longing, told with an economy and simplicity which makes their
small tragedies even more powerful and moving... MacLaverty has
created an imagined Ulster which can stand side by side with
Joyce's Dublin. Long may he continue. * Guardian *
MacLaverty has a knack for endowing the workaday with a little
poetry. * Independent *
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