Christine Dwyer Hickey is an award-winning novelist and short story writer. Her novel The Cold Eye of Heaven won the Irish Novel of the Year of the Year 2012 and was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards. Last Train from Liguria was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards novel of the year 2004. Her bestselling novel Tatty was chosen as one of the 50 Irish Books of the Decade, longlisted for the Orange Prize and shortlisted for the Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel of the Year Award, for which her novel The Dancer was also shortlisted. She lives in Dublin.
I loved this book. Christine Dwyer Hickey writes such beautifully
poised prose. Flawed lives played out in a postcard perfect
setting.
*Graham Norton*
With a beguiling grace and a deceptive simplicity, Christine Dwyer
Hickey reminds us that the past is never far away - rather, it
constantly surrounds us, suspends us, haunts us. This is a
brilliant portrait of America as we journey with Edward Hopper and
his marvellously eccentric wife, Josephine Nivison, through the
years shortly after the Second World War. Two young boys, one
German, one American, negotiate the ongoing perils of loss, while
Hopper's wife poses searing questions, and Hopper himself attempts
answers on canvas. The world, as so powerfully evoked by Christine
Dwyer Hickey, is bridged by small acts of mercy and hope.
*Colum McCann*
Everything about the writing is so carefully balanced - thought and
action, feeling and movement, drama and suspense. She leaves space
on the page, giving her characters the freedom to behave
unexpectedly and to occupy the mind of the reader even when they
are offstage. It is a long time since I have read such a fine novel
or one that I have enjoyed quite so much.
*Irish Times*
Tender
*The Times Literary Supplement*
Christine Dwyer Hickey's breathtakingly beautiful novel The Narrow
Land is about the marriage of Edward Hopper and his wife,
Josephine, but builds into a meditation on all marriages and on
creativity, in sentences that have the poise and beauty of a great
picture.
*The Times*
The novel is set up like an artwork itself, with broad brushstrokes
and fine lines, layer upon layer, scene upon scene...This is no
plot-driven page-turner, rather a slow, ethereal thing, where you
stop after each paragraph and let the achingly beautiful words
resonate. You feel the weight of history but with a lightness of
touch.
*Irish Independent*
Hickey's writing is gorgeously lyrical, whether describing the
beauty of the Massachusetts landscape or the often painful life of
the creative soul...like an American version of Kazuo Ishiguro's
The Remains of the Day. It's beguiling and compelling.
*Sunday Business Post*
[Christine Dwyer-Hickey] is nuanced and exceptional at character
and voice.
*Sinéad Gleeson, Twitter*
A wonderful read - thought provoking and compelling - and, to my
mind, Christine's best to date.
*Irish Examiner, praise for The Lives of Women*
A big, bold, remarkably assured narrative... A powerfully
accomplished work of art.
*Joseph O'Connor, Guardian, praise for Last Train to Liguria*
Beautiful and heartbreaking.
*Independent on Sunday, praise for Last Train to Liguria*
Stunning... Extraordinary.
*Independent on Sunday, praise for Cold Eye of Heaven*
A beautifully written novel... that confirms Hickey's status as a
major talent.
*Mail on Sunday, praise for Last Train to Liguria*
[Christine Dwyer Hickey's] writing shows a deep understanding of
human weakness, longing and regret.
*Laois Today*
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