“We have a writer who is carving out an eminent oeuvre” – From a Low and Quiet Sea by Donal Ryan

"Inevitably, Joyce comparisons have been made with Ryan. I made them with The Spinning Heart, but it’s not necessarily the writing - because we shouldn’t be confusing these ‘voices’ as streams of consciousness - but instead the environment in which Ryan situates his characters. Religious imagery pervades the novel. Desires are moral quandaries and fathers are proxy and allusive. At one point when a fellow exile says to Farouk, ‘We glimpse the next world in our dreams anyway; it would be more than that, a dream I’d never awake,’ we feel like we’ve rewritten Stephen Dedalus’ formulation of history and nightmares." - Liam Bishop reviews Donal Ryan's From a Low & Quiet Sea

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