"A thing of such beauty and compassion, a reminder of what the very finest sentences can do to shatter and then reassemble our hearts" * Kamila Shamsie *
"Beautiful and affecting" * David Nicholls *
"I struggle to think of a writer who has been so prolific and consistent in quality as Ryan . . . Brutally honest, moving and often hilarious" * Guardian *
"An engrossing, unpredictable, beautifully crafted novel; Donal Ryan is giving us characters - their angles and their language - that we haven't seen in Irish literature before." -- RODDY DOYLE
"Donal Ryan has not only bounded over a wall into new territory, but built himself a castle there . . . This is a superb novel." -- JOHN BOYNE
"From a Low and Quiet Sea is not only very cleverly constructed, but deeply moving too. I loved it." * Louis de Bernieres *
"Donal Ryan writes characters so well that as a reader you think `I've met that man', or `I know that woman.' But as a writer you simply wonder `how does he do it?' From a Low and Quiet Sea is brutal and beautiful, carefully crafted portraits, deep and real, tied together, fashioned by a true artist. I absolutely loved it." -- KIT DE WAAL
"Themes of kindness and humanity are the binding thread...and Ryan writes of them with characteristic warmth and insight." * Sunday Times *
"The book has stayed with me" -- Jonathan Franzen * Guardian, Best Books of 2018 *
"It's a beautiful, luminous kind of piece - full of mystery, compassion, woven with such skill; heartbreaking and restorative. I will carry these splintered men around with me for a long time, along with the women who have loved them." -- RACHEL JOYCE
