A delicate, crystalline, hugely impressive novel by Karl Geary. He's yet another masterful younger writer coming through. But these writers aren't just promising, they are arriving fully fledged, like a bunch of Hemingways and Waughs. (A pride of Hemingways?) This is language on the side of life, suggesting life, giving life. Wonderful.
Sebastian Barry Intensely powerful. ... Read more
Sunday Mirror
Luminous...brilliantly paced, full of tension and tenderness.
Irish Times
Few novelists debut with a masterpiece, but Geary has done just that. Stunning.
Mail on Sunday
Montpelier Parade is haunting - a portrayal of loneliness that is eerily beautiful and desperately moving
Lisa McInerney, author of The Glorious Heresies Luminous and moving. A story that asks who you can love and how, and a novel that gets to the heart of things; it certainly got to the heart of me.
Sunjeev Sahota A genuine talent.
Daily Mail
The precision in his prose bellies his training as a scriptwriter; the plot unfolds with self-assured ease, and the dialogue lives on the page... He trusts his reader, and the novel has compulsive power because of it. An astonishing debut.
Calen O'Hanlon
Skinny
A groundbreaking debut. Montpelier Parade is a taut, riveting, beautifully sparse coming of age tale from a fearless new talent
Tea Obreht, National Book Award Finalist & New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger's Wife I hope that someone will give me an advance copy... I've heard it's lyrical, brave and inventive - everything I look for in a novel.
Maggie O'Farrell
Observer, Book of the Year
A bittersweet love story... An unusually vivid novel, which presents life how it is, rather than how Hollywood script writers might like it to be.
Press Association
Karl's depiction of his home-town is so visceral you can almost feel the dreich air seeping into your bones as you read.... Karl's acute observations perfectly capture the essence of boyhood bewilderment and bravado. This is an unusually vivid novel that presents life how it is.
Kate Whiting
UK Press Syndication
A tender, real tale of love...a captivating debut from the Dublin-born author... A luminous, moving story that is full of heart.
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Hypnotic and involving.
Sunday Express S Magazine
I adored this unconventional love story. It's tender, with luminous language, and should catapult the author to literary fame.
Irish Examiner
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