Linda Grant * New Statesman * There is a profound ache throughout this little character study, a steely determination coupled with an unbearable loss. Naomi Alderman * Observer * This is a flawless work, touching, moving and terrifying. And Toibin is a wonderful writer: as ever, his lyrical and moving prose is the real miracle. Robert Collins * Sunday Times * Toibin's weary Mary, sceptical and grudging, reads as far more true and real than the saintly perpetual virgin of legend. Beguiling and deeply intelligent.In a single passage - and in a rendition, furthermore, of one of the most famous passages of western literature - Toibin shows how the telling and the details are all-important.
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