Press Reviews

• Sunday Times

  This subtle and beautifully constructed novel deals with the conflict between human and divine love

• Clare Boylan

  If novels can be music, this is a novel with perfect pitch

• Irish Times

  A fuller appreciation of modern literature and a greater understanding of twentieth century Ireland

• Clare Boylan

  O'Brien exquisitely evokes the harem atmosphere of convent life, the beauty and the silence, the bickering and the cruelties . . . If novels can be music, this is a novel with perfect pitch

• Irish Times

  A wonderful book, a land to be revisited

• Sunday Times

  This subtle and beautifully constructed novel deals with the conflict between human and divine love