About the Author

Colm Tóibín was born in Enniscorthy in 1955. He is the author of eleven novels including The Master, Brooklyn, The Testament of Mary, and The Magician. His work has been shortlisted for the Booker three times, and won the Costa Novel Award, the Rathbones Folio Prize and the Impac Award. He has also published two collections of stories and many works of non-fiction.

Reviews

It is impossible to read Tóibín without being moved, touched and finally changed.
*Independent on Sunday*

Proceeds with stately grace from past to present, incident to incident, slowly forming, as it moves, the full shape of a man’s public and private life.
*Washington Post*

If Colm Tóibín were a singer you would say he had perfect pitch.
*Spectator*