‘Maeve is a university fresher. She’s angsty but sweet, and she’s the first-person narrator of this brilliantly observed book…[it] is thoughtful and vivid: a spiritual pen-portrait which touches immediately on exactly what it is like to be 18.’
- Independent on Sunday
‘Parts of it will make you cry, parts of it will make you laugh … this woman is to middle class Cork what Roddy Doyle is to Kilbarrack.’
- Irish Tatler
‘There is a need for more books like this about Ireland.’
- Irish Times
‘A vibrantly entertaining text.’
-Tribune Magazine
