Ní Chuinn’s stories are unpredictable and memorable ... They describe entanglements that cannot be ignored or consigned to history ... This extraordinary book’s final words – 'nobody is ever charged' – jam open the door to a past many would prefer to remain shut away.
An original, compassionate exploration of grief, faith, forgiveness, heritage and the foundations of shared humanity ... Ní Chuinn’s brilliance as a writer lies partly in their unexpected angles of approach. ... Chuinn finds words and images for feelings that are hard to formulate.
This is a phenomenal debut ... The painful scenes of Every One Still Here do not, as one character has it, recur by coincidence – they are the direct consequence of a political situation. This is heart-stopping writing, and I hope for more to come from the mysterious Ní Chuinn.
This is a brilliant and remarkable book ... The stories are linked not just by style but by shared deep resonances of theme, method, symbol. The parts make a whole.
This debut collection of six stories announces Liadan Ní Chuinn as an exciting new voice on the literary scene. Easy reading it is not - but worth the full immersion demanded by these jagged, war-torn characters, it most certainly is.
