Tatty (Shortlisted For The Irish Book Awards Novel Of The Ye

Description: Hailed by the critics as a masterpiece, Tatty is a devastating, yet hilarious, depiction of a troubled Dublin family told through the lively, charismatic voice of a little girl. With brutal honesty, Tatty tells the story of her life with her beloved, feckless Dad, her tormented Mam, her five siblings and the booze that brings them down. This not just an entertaining tale, but also a heartbreaking account of a disturbed childhood that makes for compulsive reading. Review: Christine Dwyer Hickey's marvellous novel is a wonderful achievement. She gets the very sense, smell and taste of a child's world so authentically correct. * Irish Examiner * Some of the finest writing of this century and the last. * Irish Independent * Dwyer Hickey's mastery of the child's voice is spectacular and her acute understanding of the mentality of children leads to some hilarious moments. * Sunday Tribune * Beautiful and heartbreaking. * Sunday Independent * Dwyer Hickey gives Tatty a fragile resilience. It makes for authentic fiction. * The Sunday Times * Completely fresh - I was blown away by this book. It is absolutely wonderful. I want everyone to read it. * The View * Such is Hickey's power that, as a reader, you'll soon feel that you have become the very necessary person for Tatty - someone who knows everything about her, and longs to protect her. And when the book ends so suddenly that you feel you are abandoning her, the effect is shattering. Tatty devastates in a way that only the most unsentimental novels can. * Sunday Independent * Brilliantly observed...The achievement is the creation of Tatty's voice, a voice that guides the reader through this world from the child's limited perspective...Dwyer Hickey successfully juxtaposes the ordinary and the extraordinary * Irish Times * Author Biography: Christine Dwyer Hickey is an award-winning novelist and short-story writer. Twice winner of the Listowel Writers' Week Short Story Competition, she was also a prize winner in the prestigious Observer/Penguin Short-Story Competition. Her trilogy, The Dancer, The Gambler and The Gatemaker, has received wide critical acclaim, and The Dancer was shortlisted for the Listowel Writers' Week Book of the Year. Christine has also written a screenplay, adapted from her own short story, for the film No Better Man, starring Niall Toibin. She lives in Palmerstown with her family.