With this elating and humane novel, Colm Tibn has produced a masterwork Sunday Times The most compelling and moving portrait of a young woman I have read in a long time -- Zo Heller Guardian, Books of the Year A work of such skill, understatement and sly jewelled merriment could haunt your life -- Ali Smith TLS, Books of the Year Suffused with humane depth, funny, affecting, deftly plotted ... a novel of magnificent accomplishment -- Peter Kemp Sunday Times, Novel of the Year Brooklyn moved me more than any other book this year -- Nicholas Hytner Observer, Books of the Year A beautifully crafted work that transformed ordinary lives into something extraordinary Daily Telegraph, Books of the Year No book this year gave me greater pleasure -- Nell Freudenberger Financial Times Not a sentence or a thought out of place.