'The River Capture is breathtaking. It is profound in the most bruising way; elegant, and then thrillingly savage; expansive, but masterfully precise, and full of sentences that made me choke on jealous rage. Costello is in a different class altogether'
LISA McINERNEY

'Astonishingly bittersweet and beautiful, The River Capture is a quiet, important, hypnotic book about absolutely everything. It is as near perfect as it is possible for a novel to be'
SARA BAUME

'Intense, engrossing, a novel that constantly subverts the reader’s expectation – Mary Costello is a truly startling talent'
KEVIN BARRY

'A novel of glorious abundance: reverent and angry and earthy and spiritual. Costello takes the familiar and transforms it, again and again, into soaring meditations on love, sensuality, human cruelty. To read The River Capture is to witness a writer in evolution, taking her work to a whole new level. This is a bold, sophisticated, beautiful novel, both a homage to Joyce and a deeply personal and contemporary work'
MOLLY McCLOSKEY

'Mary Costello's writing has the kind of urgency that the great problems demand - call them themes; they are the kind of problems that make a writer'
ANNE ENRIGHT, Guardian

PRAISE FOR ACADEMY STREET:

'Packed with emotional intensity'
Sunday Times

'To recount a life story in a novel is a difficult task. To do so with brevity and unsentimental honesty takes greatness. Academy Street is a powerful and emotional novel from one of literature's finest new voices'
JOHN BOYNE

'An exceptional first novel'
The Times

'A writer of huge ability'
Guardian

'I read this book from cover to cover in one night, unable to stop'
MAGGIE O'FARRELL

'Delve[s] deep into the human condition, into the bittersweet beauty of life'
Irish Times

'Costello imbues lyricism into each sentence of her carefully constructed prose . . . she writes with a poetry that extends beyond being ornamental'
Observer

'Academy Street is understated, graceful and, ultimately, devastating. Even as my heart was breaking I couldn't put the book down'
DONAL RYAN, author of The Spinning Heart

'A markedly brave book, an unblinking attempt to recreate a life of intense ordinariness and make it special . . . well worth applauding'
Sunday Times

'Excellent'
Times Literary Supplement

'A novel where the interior life on an ordinary woman is delineated with artistry and grace'
Metro