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Mary Morrissy has published three novels - Mother of Pearl, The Pretender and The Rising of Bella Casey - and a collection of short stories, A Lazy Eye (1993). She has won a Hennessy Award and a Lannan Literary Foundation Award and currently teaches at University College Cork.
She is a true heir to Chekhov and the great writers... Her clear-eyed vision and her deep compassion, along with her lovely sense of the comic and her exceptional literary articulacy, make this an outstanding collection. -- Eilis Ni Dhuibhne * Irish Times * Mary Morrissy is a wonderful writer. These stories are entertaining and deft, so skilfully balanced and interwoven that when you begin to pick out the pattern it is a real moment of delight. -- Hilary Mantel Morrissy bewitches the reader with an immaculate yet irreverent turn of phrase, her imagination slanted at a rare angle. -- Imogen Lycett-Green * Daily Mail * Story by story [Morrissy] stitches together a hundred tiny plots, moving backwards and forwards across 60 years, and outwards to Italy, America, Australia and Vietnam... Morrissy proves herself a steady observer of the bleakness of everyday life, as well as when bleakness becomes catastrophe. -- Hannah Rosefield * Observer * One of the best Irish books you'll read this year. -- Sara Keating * Sunday Business Post *
