‘Carry Me Down is uncompromising, unputdownable and done with expert lightness. It's a work of discreet brilliance. M.J. Hyland is a truly gifted writer.’ * Ali Smith * ‘This is writing of the highest order.’ * J. M. Coetzee * ‘Hyland’s talent and her power of realisation are manifest and moving...a novel that will command the world’s attention.’ * Monthly * ‘Hyland writes in unadorned, clear prose, evoking period, place and setting with intense clarity and a lovely, restrained lyricism.’ * Australian * ‘Carry Me Down is a heart-rendingly domestic work full of compassion for the most ordinary of our human frailties.’ * Age * ‘Hyland’s disquieting novel is feverishly alert to childhood’s bewilderments and sensitively articulates the strange osmosis between the mundane and the otherworldly.’ * Sunday Times *