Shortlisted for the 2008 Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction.
The novel's prologue won the biggest prize in the world for a single short story - the BBC National Short Story Prize.
"Sheer comic brilliance" - The Times
"The best comic novel I've ever read" - Tommy Tiernan
"Could be the finest comic novel since Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman" - The Sunday Tribune
My first novel, of which I am very fond. The adventures of teenage twin sisters Juno & Juliet, in their first year away from home. Life, love and literature, in Galway and Tipperary.
"Like Roddy Doyle in an extremely good mood" - The Washington Post
"A modern, at times brilliantly ironic reworking of the classical fairytale, with nods to Shakespeare, Austen and Beckett." - Literary Review
"Hugely entertaining" - Vogue
If anybody wants to ask me any questions about Juno & Juliet, Toasted Heretic, the next novel, or anything else, feel free. (I might not check in very often, especially when I'm writing, but I will get round to answering eventually...) As I haven't published a book since 2001, I'm not expecting much action in this forum, but I do like to hear from people who've read my stuff. I imagine a stately, almost Elizabethan correspondence, with a letter posted every year or so from the Colonies receiving a courteous reply six months later...
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