‘This is a brilliant and remarkable book... Immediately asks to be considered among the island's signal 21st-century literary achievements... These stories open out and close again in strange folds and planes. They operate like some theoretical shape in geometry that has more surfaces than are physically possible - they are Escher houses, Klein bottles. Or human minds... In this extraordinary capacity to embody process - in this context, another word for human consciousness - lies the essence of this superb book's quietly radical realism’ 
KEVIN POWER, IRISH TIMES   

‘Phenomenal - these stories have a poise, a precision, an anger, a melancholy, a way of skewering things, that is entirely Ní Chuinn's own. A formidable debut by an astonishing new voice’
LUCY CALDWELL

‘Exceptional stories, stark yet richly textured. Liadan Ní Chuinn is the real deal’
LOUISE KENNEDY

‘These stories are rich. They have heart and weight. This is singular, controlled, dextrous writing from someone who is now one of my favourite writers’
WENDY ERSKINE

‘An extraordinary book by an author who refuses to look the other way. Ní Chuinn's incantatory sentences quiver like seismographs, registering the quakes and ruptures that can crack a life in two’ THOMAS MORRIS

‘Here's a writer who knows how to swerve gracefully from the expected. Her work is instinctive, intriguing and truly exciting. I cannot wait to see what's in store for her’
LISA MCINERNEY

‘A phenomenal writer… Something new and startling is happening in this work. Fiction is being rejuvenated again. Anything seems possible’
DANNY DENTON