‘Carry Me Down is uncompromising, unputdownable and done with expert lightness. It’s a work of discreet brilliance. M.J. Hyland is a truly gifted writer.’

‘This is writing of the highest order.’

‘Hyland’s talent and her power of realisation are manifest and moving…a novel that will command the world’s attention.’

‘Hyland writes in unadorned, clear prose, evoking period, place and setting with intense clarity and a lovely, restrained lyricism.’

‘Carry Me Down is a heart-rendingly domestic work full of compassion for the most ordinary of our human frailties.’

‘Hyland’s disquieting novel is feverishly alert to childhood’s bewilderments and sensitively articulates the strange osmosis between the mundane and the otherworldly.’