The hilarious yet devastating new novel from the Man Booker
prize winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha and The Woman Who
Walked into Doors
Roddy Doyle was born in Dublin in 1958. He is the author of twelve acclaimed novels including The Commitments, The Snapper, The Van and Smile, two collections of short stories, and Rory & Ita, a memoir about his parents. He won the Booker Prize in 1993 for Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.
Roddy Doyle excelled himself… A typically bittersweet novella about
a middle-aged man’s memories of his schooldays which pulls the rug
shockingly from under the reader’s feet.
*Guardian, Books of the Year*
A book that made me feel I really was in the presence of a
master.
*Observer*
Reading Smile, one is swept along – as in all Doyle’s novels – by
the vibrancy of the language, the vivid sense of character and
place, but nothing prepares you for the final few pages where, in a
twist of imaginative brilliance, everything you have read is turned
completely on its head… Smile is beautifully written, and
beautifully observed
*Daily Telegraph*
Terribly moving and even, at times, distressing, while saving its
greatest surprise until the end… There is a brave and complex
ending to the novel… It will inspire debate but also admiration for
the courage of a hugely successful writer who refuses to be
predictable and uses the novel to challenge both the reader’s sense
of ease and the nature of the form itself.
*Guardian*
Smile turns out to be a novel of literary deception and
self-deception, of suppression, guilt, fantasy and the deep damage
that leaves a mind profoundly disordered… I suspect Smile will
become a bestseller
*Daily Telegraph*
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