Winner: Irish Book Award Children’s Book of the Year, Irish Book Award People’s Choice Book of the Year, Bisto Book of the Year, Que Leer Award Best International Novel of the Year (Spain), Orange Prize Readers Group Book of the Year.
Shortlisted for British Book Award, the Border’s New Voices Award; the Ottaker’s Children’s Book Prize, the Paolo Ungari Literary Award (Italy) , Irish Book Award Irish Novel of the Year Award]]; the Leeds Book Award; the North-East Book Award; the Berkshire Book Award; the Sheffield Book Award; the Lancashire Book Award; Prix Farniente (Belgium); Flemish Young Readers Award; Independent Booksellers Book of the Year; Deutschen Jugend Literatur Preis (Germany).
Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal and the International IMPAC Literary Award
Reviews
' A small wonder of a book' Guardian
' This is what fiction is supposed to do: introduce you to the minds of those who wouldn't ordinarily meet' Guardian
' Quite impossible to put down, this is the rare kind of book that doesn't leave your head for days' Becky Stradwick, Borders, The Bookseller
'Packed with overstones that remain in the imagination ... it stays just ahead of its readers before delivering its killer punch in the final pages' Nick Tucker, Independent
' The Holocaust as a subject insists on respect, precludes criticism, prefers silence. One thing is clear: this book will not go gently into any good night' Observer
' An extraordinary book ... a powerful story, simply told' Irish Examiner
'It is a novel that inspires thought and difference of opinion, it is a book that deserves to be read, to be discussed, to be held close to the heart' Achuka
' A wonderful, haunting story' The Bookseller
' A book so simple, so seemingly effortless, that it's almost perfect' Irish Independent
' Overwhelmingly powerful' Carousel
' A book that lingers in the mind for quite some time. It is a subtle, calculatedly simple and ultimately moving story. For any age' Irish Times
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