About the Author

Colm Tóibín was born in Enniscorthy in 1955. He is the author of eleven novels including The Master, Brooklyn, The Testament of Mary, and The Magician. His work has been shortlisted for the Booker three times, and won the Costa Novel Award, the Rathbones Folio Prize and the Impac Award. He has also published two collections of stories and many works of non-fiction.

Reviews

An audacious, profound, and wonderfully intelligent book.
*Guardian*

A marvel of lightly worn research and modulated tone.
*New Yorker*

A must read. Colm Tóibín has not only written a spectacular novel he has found a way to pay tribute to Henry James. We should all be so gifted and so lucky.
*Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones and Lucky*