“These are Beckett like characters, mythologised, haunted, mired in trauma using craic as deflection… Debbie’s fresh bleakly funny voice marks her out as original”

The Sunday Times

“The depiction of mental illness is raw and often painful, making this not just a sharp, tender coming-of-age story for Debbie, but for the whole cast of Nealon’s characters”

The Irish Independent

“A sweet, clever coming-of-age novel that finds charity and depth for its older characters as well as the young”

The Irish Times

The book will also feature on BBC Radio 4’s Book at Bedtime this week. Read by Louisa Harland of Derry Girls fame it goes out twice daily for the next two weeks at 12.04 and then 22.45 -https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000w4np

https://www.rte.ie/radio/radioplayer/html5/#/radio1/11307992