'Extraordinarily vivid, knowing and satisfyingly irreverent'
John Banville on The Effect of Her
'What great literature (or one kind of it, at least) should be, a marriage of the personal with the political and social . . . One of my books of the year, if not the book of the year.'
JOHN HARDING, author and critic, on Unspoken
'Stembridge is reminding us that the larger moods of history begin in the small moods of individual moments . . . He has done an excellent job of capturing both'
IRISH TIMES on Unspoken
'Authentic, honest, and utterly absorbing'
DIARMAID FERRITER on Unspoken
'Unspoken conveys to the reader the excitement of the times with an enchanting freshness . . . Wonderful'
DAILY MAIL
'Absorbing . . . fuses the everyday with the historical . . . Stembridge has been able to capture the powerful shifts in the cultural and political atmosphere of a historic decade.'
SUNDAY TIMES on Unspoken
'Unforgettable . . . Reading Unspoken is like being mesmerised by a storytelling Janus all human warmth and compassion from one mouth, cold accuracy and knowingness from the other. A wonderful achievement.'
EUGENE MCCABE
'A striking portrait of what Ireland used to be and what it is today. Unspoken is a fantastic novel.'
BOOKMUNCH
'One of the most interesting writing minds this country has produced in recent decades . . . Stembridge is a man of formidable talent.'
IRISH INDEPENDENT
--...
''You couldn't write it,' people say of Irish public life over the past fifty years, but here is Gerard Stembridge to prove them wrong. In The Effect of Her, with flair and great daring, he has written a fictional chronicle of the 1970s that is extraordinarily vivid, knowing, and satisfyingly irreverent. The portrait of 'CJ' alone is worth the purchase price.'
John Banville
Mags Perry, a journalist, flees her marriage in England to create a new life in what she hopes is a different Ireland.
Francis Strong, a teenager obsessed with literature, leaves his family for the dizzying freedoms of the capital.
CJ, a disgraced politician in search of a way back to power, meets a woman who may change the direction of his life.
In his breathtaking new novel, Gerard Stembridge weaves together a cast of unforgettable voices to tell the story of a whole society in flux. As his characters struggle towards happiness and freedom, he asks where true change comes from: the individual or her political masters.
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