RaveThe Irish Examiner (IRE)Each story is highly resonant ... Each of the stories is an illustration of Doyle’s intuitive insight into human nature: our frailties, vulnerabilities and, most of all, our need for connection ... The settings are detailed and yet not solid — this feeling of shaky foundations reinforces the general anxiety and destabilisation of our current times. Against backgrounds of empty or thronging urban streets, claustrophobic apartments or houses, loneliness, anxiety, and feelings of isolation become the over-riding emotions ... The dialogues — Doyle’s trademark signature — never fail to ring with an utter authenticity ... While all the stories in this collection are touched with the Doyle magic, the book is worth buying for the final story alone ... I had to put the book down to shed some tears, more than once. And that’s the best accolade I can give.
