Through her acute and thoughtful take on issues of truth-telling, McLaughlin reminds us that the novel remains a good mode to investigate our relationship to truth, in part because as a made-up form … Read more
Review by John Walshe, Sunday Business Post
McLaughlin scrapes away a veneer of perfect lives in an entertaining debut. Danielle McLaughlin’s debut novel is an artfully written story about seemingly fabulous lives concealing dangerous … Read more
Review by John Self, The Times — a tale of art, adultery and awful children
I like a literary wunderkind as much as the next person, but there’s a lot to be said for being a later starter in the fiction game: look at Penelope Fitzgerald, who was 60 when she published her … Read more
Publishers Weekly starred review – This engaging and evocative work will stay with readers.
McLaughlin’s remarkable debut novel...McLaughlin’s descriptions of the art and its appeal have an almost mythic quality...and she has a gift for precise characterization. This engaging and evocative … Read more
Dublin Review of Books ¦ Landscapes of Displaced Desire
By Tom Tracey Dinosaurs on Other Planets, by Danielle McLaughlin, John Murray, 208 pp, £14.99, ISBN: 978-1473613706 Coping seems to be a Cork preoccupation. In June, We Are Dublin’s twitter … Read more
Literary review by Tim Love ¦ “I’m impressed by the whole book”
Stories from "The Stinging Fly" (who first published this collection), "The New Yorker", etc. After reading the first few pages of the first story I knew I was in safe hands; it's immersive. I'm … Read more
