Reviews

“Defiantly clear-sighted. Rigorously unsentimental. Time is man-handled. There are quite simply no boring bits” -Independent (London)

“Conlon has the rare ability to give her words an almost mythic overtone without ever sounding forced” -The Times (London)

“She is one of Ireland’s major truly creative writers” -Books Ireland

“Evelyn Conlon excels in exposing the dichotomy between public behaviour and private behaviour” -Fortnight magazine

“She picks some of the threads from the fabric of love and examines them closely, refusing to take refuge in coyness or cliché” -Irish Times

“…sharp sinuous writing, full of controlled anger and suddenly opened passion …Committed writing, shot through with original thinking and surreal wit ” -The Scotsman

“In her latest novel Conlon disrupts apparently calm, untroubled surfaces to pose some very complex questions” -Irish Studies Review

“A brilliant epistolary work suffusing a portrait of modern Dublin with the subtle wit of Clarissa” -Kirkus Review, USA

“Her characters are articulate, passionate and frequently funny. Her prose is a delight” -Sunday Times

“A genuinely exploratory writer, true to every kink which her imagination puts into her characters, her work is excitingly original” -The Times

“Meticulously observant… Conlon writes with sane, sober wit; her lucid prose is pithy without falling into epigrams. -Publishers Weekly

“Highlights the exceptional and unfathomable depths of what we nonchalantly dismiss as the normal, the everyday… Conlon emerges as champion of the individual, the Everyman and the Everywoman” -The Irish Times.

“One of Ireland’s most distinctive and energetic voices” -Feminist Bookstore News.

“This moving novel confronts the experience of capital punishment. Through two continents and two generations Conlon traces the countenance of life and death and its so-called punishment, in a tale deftly told with revelation that startles with new insight” -Sam Reese Sheppard.

Skin of Dreams – shortlisted for Irish Novel of the year, 2004