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Doyle writes with remarkable fidelity to the childs perspective: exuberant, chaotic, and painfully honest. Beneath its lively surface runs a profound undercurrent of loss the dawning awareness of adult failure and the fragility of belonging. Critics have called it a triumph of style and perception a brilliant mixture of the unsentimental and the heartbreaking (Sunday Telegraph).
The novel stands as a landmark in contemporary Irish fiction: both a recreation of a time and place and a universal study of the way innocence gives way to knowledge, laughter to silence.
