Christine Dwyer Hickey's marvellous novel is a wonderful achievement. She gets the very sense, smell and taste of a child's world so authentically correct.
Irish Examiner

Some of the finest writing of this century and the last.
Irish Independent

Dwyer Hickey's mastery of the child's voice is spectacular and her acute understanding of the mentality of children leads to some hilarious moments.
Sunday Tribune

Beautiful and heartbreaking.
Sunday Independent

Dwyer Hickey gives Tatty a fragile resilience. It makes for authentic fiction.
The Sunday Times

Completely fresh - I was blown away by this book. It is absolutely wonderful. I want everyone to read it.
The View

Such is Hickey's power that, as a reader, you'll soon feel that you have become the very necessary person for Tatty - someone who knows everything about her, and longs to protect her. And when the book ends so suddenly that you feel you are abandoning her, the effect is shattering. Tatty devastates in a way that only the most unsentimental novels can.
Sunday Independent

Brilliantly observed…The achievement is the creation of Tatty's voice, a voice that guides the reader through this world from the child's limited perspective...Dwyer Hickey successfully juxtaposes the ordinary and the extraordinary
Irish Times