This Plague of Souls is written in perfectly-pitched cadences. It captures with exquisite care a man ambushed by loss and fear, by hovering forces that are mysterious and otherworldly and beyond his control. It further establishes Mike McCormack as one of the best novelists writing now -- COLM TOIBIN
This is the reason Mike McCormack is one of Ireland's best-loved novelists; he is the most modestly brilliant writer we have. His delicate abstractions are woven from the ordinary and domestic - both metaphysical and moving, McCormack's work asks the big questions about our small lives -- ANNE ENRIGHT
Stark, intense, fiercely controlled . . . Mike McCormack at his best -- PAT McCABE
A sombre tale shot through with glints of dark humour, in which the sins of the past at once haunt and illuminate the present. A compelling read -- JOHN BANVILLE
This is a darkly marvellous novel: at once intimate, domestic and poignant, then speculative, hard-boiled and wild. That McCormack can be so convincing, so skilled in both registers is remarkable. That he can do it concurrently is genius -- LISA McINERNEY
It was deliciously sinister and reminded me that nobody captures the cold beauty and cruelty of the world like Mike; I just know I'm going to be chewing it over in my mind for weeks -- SARA BAUME
Mike McCormack's fiction has always had a philosophical bent, and none more so than in This Plague of Souls. In Nealon, we're given access to the mind of a man minutely attuned to every movement and vibration of his own consciousness, a man who is psychologically astute but receptive, too, to the hidden rhythms and frequencies of reality. There is a beautiful surreal feel to this novel, with its limbo landscape and night-time drives, but it is Nealon's meditation on family and fatherhood - and what the loss of those might mean - that will linger long in the reader afterwards -- MARY COSTELLO
Praise for Mike McCormack and Solar Bones: McCormack has always been among the most adventurous and ambitious Irish writers -- COLM TOIBIN
Pure enchantment from an otherworldly talent, I admired the hell out of this book -- ELEANOR CATTON
Wonderfully original, distinctively contemporary . . . delivered in lucid, lyrical prose * * New York Times * *
