Anne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and works. She won the Rooney Prize in 1991.
As cool and clear-headed as the moment a migraine lifts, these pained, precise, disquieting stories restore to us the strangeness of the lives we follow beneath the surface of the lives we lead... A remarkable debut. -- Aidan Matthews <br> Elegant, scrupulously poised, always intelligent and, not least, original. -- Angela Carter