PositiveThe New York Times Book ReviewInformative and well-researched ... Watkins does a thorough job ... At times, in her thorough account of the grass-roots support for the I.R.A., Watkins strays into the weeds.
Michael Brendan Dougherty
PositiveThe Irish Times (UK)... self-analysis is done with frankness and pathos. But at points autobiography swells into cranky generalisations ... Sometimes it would be better – and humbler – to use I rather than we ... poignant eloquence and emotional honesty.