Christine Dwyer Hickey is a multi-award-winning novelist and short story writer, teacher, and member of the Irish Arts Academy and Aosdána. Her novel The Cold Eye of Heaven won the Irish Novel of the Year award in 2012, and Tatty (2005) was named one of the Fifty Irish Books of the Decade. She divides her time between Ireland and Italy.
"Christine Dwyer Hickey's The Lives of Women mines the chasm
between adults and teenagers, and exposes the narcissism and
cruelty that lie behind the respectable front of suburban
life."
*Sydney Morning Herald*
"Dwyer Hickey is excellent on the flat horizons and banal
twitterings of the suburbs…[she] writes with quiet power about the
devastation of lives circumscribed by habit, fear and
ignorance."
*The Independent*
"Dwyer Hickey has done a fantastic job of honing in on that
dangerous, delicate time between adolescence and adulthood. The
terrifying truth in her novel is that it can all go so wrong so
quickly when teenage emotions are left to run unchecked. A
well-written and engaging novel."
*WeLiveThisBook*
"Christine Dwyer Hickey's writing is both flowing and elegant."
*The Bookbag*
"The book’s genre is hard to pin down. It is cast in two periods
more than 30 years apart, and reads like a closely observed novel
of manners – then and now. But since ...the sinister is never far
from the surface of her prose, The Lives of Women reads at times
like a suburban gothic and at others could be mistaken for a
straight-up murder mystery."
*Irish Times / Irish Times Book Club Pick*
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