This is not a debut in the usual sense; a promise of greater things to come. There is no need to ask what Danielle McLaughlin will do next, she has done it already. This book has arrived. I think it will stay with us for a long time * Anne Enright *Full of such arresting, resonant and precise writing . . . an impressive achievement * Financial Times *Taut with words unsaid and fights unhad, and the endings are all that endings should be -- Sara Taylor * Metro *Fans of short story books will definitely relish this one * Bookbag *McLaughlin has a flair for making her stories crystallise around a striking image * Sunday Times *An exquisite collection from an exciting new voice in short fiction * Lady *McLaughlin is yet another fantastic new addition to Ireland's burgeoning literary establishment * Big Issue *Her near-faultless debut collection . . . deals primarily with psychological alienation, and the desolate upheaval of humans in crisis * Guardian *[McLaughlin] writes with a meditative intensity which gives her subject matter (domestic friction and failing affections) a certain gravitas * The Spectator *A quietly explosive collection -- Patricia Nicol * Sunday Times *