Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018, the powerful fourth novel from multi-award-winning author of The Spinning Heart.
Donal Ryan is from Nenagh in County Tipperary. He is the award-winning author of four novels and one short story collection. A former civil servant, Donal lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Limerick. He lives with his wife Anne Marie and their two children.
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 Bernières*
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
*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*
From a Low and Quiet Sea is beautifully written, compassionate and
almost unbearably moving. I loved it. I would struggle to think of
any other Irish author working today who writes with as much
compassion as Donal Ryan.
*LOUISE O'NEILL*
Donal Ryan writes with such sharp observation and humanity, that he
makes us sit up and wonder at the tiny quiet internal lives of
strangers. His writing is a wonderful gift to all of us. From a Low
and Quiet Sea is another short and perfect novel to be inhaled in
one heart-lurching gulp.
*LIZ NUGENT*
Ryan is not the first Irish writer indebted to Joyce, but his work
reminds me of something Sylvia Beach said about Joyce: “He told me
that he had never met a bore.”…Wonderful
*Irish Times*
Deft and devastating…this book is both hard-hitting and uplifting:
it serves as an indictment of the care industry, but also as a
tribute to the way that humans care for one another.
*The Observer*
The denouement, which comes in breathless bursts, is devastating.
From a Low and Quiet Sea leaves you with that sense of
discombobulating enlightenment that so often characterises the
quiet epiphanies of great short stories.
*Sunday Times*
A masterly portrait . . . the confidence with which Ryan dons the
clothing of another culture marks a departure for his writing . . .
a successor to John McGahern . . . It is exciting to see his
subject matter move beyond his country’s borders, with the prospect
of more of this to come.’
*The Spectator*
Haunting ... utterly persuasive
*Irish Times, Books of the Year*
The lives and stories, loves and tragedies, animating From a Low
and Quiet Sea are wonderfully individual and finely alive. This is
a brief book: yet one that lingers long in the reader’s mind.
*New Statesman*
As moving as anything written about Syria
*Mail on Sunday*
It is vomit-inducing, it’s so good.
*Kit de Waal, Observer*
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