The Bridge

“Tóibín is a master of the unsaid, of the spaces between words, of the long, slow textures of quiet lives”Guardian, Guardian

“He has an almost uncanny ability to inhabit the interior lives of his characters with an absolute lack of sentimentality or judgment”TLS, TLS

“What makes Tóibín one of our finest contemporary writers is his dual power as a fierce cultural critic and a novelist of immense, delicate intuition. He operates with a journalist’s eye for hard fact and a poet’s ear for the weight of a pause”New Yorker, New Yorker

“A writer at the height of his considerable powers”The Guardian, The Guardian