Grace Notes

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Prize The luminous novel by one of the finest living Irish writers, which Brian Moore has praised as "in every sense a triumph…moving throughout and ending triumphantly and joyously in its own special music."

"MacLaverty summons up a time and a place with an unerring exactness reminiscent of Joyce's Dubliners… a magnificent portrait of the sources and ends, wretchedness and rewards, of creativity."

"Page after page something delighted and moved me—marvelous, vivid tours of emotion, intelligence, poetry—every step of the way. Compelling."

"I was reminded of the way Joyce Cary so brilliantly portrayed a painter's life in The Horse's Mouth.… What a wonderful writer [MacLaverty] is!"

"More ambitious than any of his previous work… a remarkable novel."

Bernard MacLaverty is the author of five previous collections of stories and five novels, including Grace Notes, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and Midwinter Break, shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. Born in Ireland, he now lives in Glasgow, Scotland.