Married Quarters

A welcome return by the great Shane Connaughton in a novel that shines with truth, humanity and insight on every page. An immense reading pleasure. -- Joseph O'Connor A beautiful book, funny and insightful; a completely engaging coming of age story. -- Christine Dwyer Hickey Comic fiction at its finest . . . Connaughton brings . . . such lyricism and fondness that his writing is as radiant as it is witty - but there is shade here, too, and the degree of poignancy is brilliantly judged. * Daily Mail * An engrossing, calmly constructed novel . . . Connaughton's beautiful sentences draw us through a fertile story that brims with insight, narrative skill and a compelling feeling for landscape, reminding the reader that the past is never as simple as we think we remember it. . . . A flint-hard ear for dialogue . . . its characters leak the pure earthiness which church and barracks never quite repressed. -- Mary O'Donnell * Sunday Times * Connaughton is strong on dialogue . . . abounds with enjoyable anecdotes and flavourful details . . . an intriguing picture of Ireland in the 1950s. -- Sara Baume * The Irish Times * Immersing yourself in Connaughton’s Cavan is a real and rare joy, like calling forth the spirits of two late Johns, the humour and humanity of John B Keane, allied to the insight and truth of John McGahern * Sunday Business Post * A hugely entertaining, fascinating book. -- Pat Kenny, Newstalk