Mount Merrion

[Quinn's] assured debut plays out over half a century - a state-of-the-nation novel as told through the fast-changing fortunes of middle-class married life ... his novel is filled with perfectly judged moments

Independent

Imaginative and compassionate ... Mount Merrion is about how a decent man, anxious to play by the rules - even if they're someone else's rules - can make the sort of choices that may end up ruining him

Mail on Sunday

Justin Quinn's debut novel is poignant - but it is also fiercely and poetically written, a beautifully observed trajectory of the rise and fall of a society and its assumptions, through the medium of a family story ... This is one of the best books of the year

Evening Herald

Mesmerising ... The story is a page-turner, and Quinn's prose consistently light and controlled

Irish Independent

A great story ... both beautifully written and a well-paced page-turner

Irish Times

A book that people will find hard to put down ... a gripping story

Sunday Business Post

An impressively accomplished trip through forty-odd years of Ireland's recent history ... quite brilliant

RTÉ Guide

Exquisite

Irish Examiner

An epic yet intimate account of one family caught in the maelstrom of recent history

Metro Herald

Accomplished ... as a condition-of-Ireland novel it makes for salutary reading

TLS

A bona fide thumping good read

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An ambitious take on both personal dramas and the altering political landscape of Europe

Sunday Telegraph