Joseph O'Connor's fiction has been published in forty languages.
His twenty books include eleven novels, among them the
million-selling Star of the Sea, Ghost Light, Shadowplay and My
Father's House, a Washington Post Book of the Year. His work has
been shortlisted for the LA Times Book Award, twice for the
Whitbread/Costa and twice for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical
Fiction and has won the Nielsen Bookscan Golden Book Award,
France's Prix Millepages, Italy's Premio Acerbi and Premio Napoli,
an American Library Association Award, the American Ireland Fund
Literary Award, the Hennessy Writer of the Year and Hall of Fame
Awards, the Eason/An Post Novel of the Year Award, a Cullman
Fellowship at the New York Public Library, the Irish Pen Award for
Outstanding Achievement and the Prix Madeleine Zepter for European
Novel of the Year. He is Frank McCourt Chair of Creative Writing at
the University of Limerick.
www.josephoconnorauthor.com
A spectacular, thrilling novel...suspense crackles...celebrates
triumphant against-the-odds camaraderie.
*Sunday Times*
O'Connor is on stellar form with this ensemble thriller ...while
the story's inbuilt tension urges you on, it's the sheer vigour of
O'Connor's beautifully turned phrases that really makes the book
sing...an expert storyteller
*Daily Mail*
A literary thriller of the highest order. The incarnation of
O'Flaherty, the Irish Oskar Schindler, is sublime. What often
elevates a writer is compassion, and O'Connor has it in spades...
Beautifully crafted, his razor-sharp dialogue is to be savoured,
and he employs dark humour to great effect. The plot twists keep on
coming
*Observer*
Breathtakingly good writing - O'Connor puts you right there, centre
stage in the story and never lets you go
The novel's evocative scene-setting, its propulsive narration and
its powerful depiction of bravery and unity in extremis, all make
for an engrossing read.
*Telegraph*
Thrilling... Based on true events, this tense, gripping narrative
is rendered in beautifully evocative prose
*Mail on Sunday*
Impressive and pleasurable...the diverse ventriloquism of
O'Connor's novel evokes a city in peril with wonderful vitality
*Financial Times*
A tale worth re-telling, adorned as it is by the brilliants of
O'Connor's impressionistic writing
*The Times*
A powerful portrait of extraordinary courage
*Irish Independent*
Precisely choreographed... We eagerly follow the characters through
uncertainty and disappointment as well as high-stakes jeopardy.
O'Connor is playing with the possibilities of multiple narrators,
and thinking also about plurality, reliability and the historical
record
*Guardian, Book of the Day*
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