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One of the most accomplished Irish literary stylists of her generation. To read Anne Enright is to be enthralled and moved

Joseph O'Connor

Enthralling... Reckless intelligence, savage humour, slow revelation, no consolation: Anne Enright's fiction is jet dark - but how it glitters

New York Times Book Review

Shockingly beautiful and painfully funny

Observer

This short story collection gives those new to her oeuvre a chance to delve into gems from her past...precociously vibrant

Melissa McClements, Financial Times

Every one of these stories takes you to a place you might rather not be in, but which you are drawn in to explore, allured by their dark brilliance

Hermione Lee, Guardian

She's a sphinx, an alchemist, a literary witch who sticks a spell on you. Angela Carter and Ali Smith can do this too.... buy it, read it, it isn't realism, it's music

Scotsman

The quality of the writing should help to explain Enright's having won the 2007 Man Booker Prize ... single lines and paragraphs are so well crafted, with such salty, pleasantly brutal sensibility, that these stories function like beguiling advertisements for Enright's novels. After sampling Taking Pictures, those who, like me, have not yet read The Gathering will likely move her Man Booker winner nearer to the top of the pile beside the bed

Lionel Shriver, Daily Telegraph

At the top of her form, she is remarkable

Jane Shilling, The Times

Enright deals beautifully with the modern world ... blood, guts, and heart-stopping beauty

Independent

Dazzling ...These narrative snapshots are skilfully framed and in-focus, the language forthright and fresh

Time Out

Enright writes beautifully about the distance of desire

Financial Times