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Book Synopsis"Bernard MacLaverty’s powerful novel is a love story as affecting and tragic as you could want." —
USA TodayTrade Review"A formidable fictional triumph." -- Observer
"Miraculously vivid precision…[MacLaverty] is a born novelist." -- Spectator
"To fashion a short, telling novel out of the hideous complexities of Northern Ireland takes narrative skill of a high order. In
Cal Bernard MacLaverty has managed to do it superbly." -- Daily Telegraph
"
Cal is a hard, dark gemstone of a book." -- Cleveland Plain Dealer
"As a distillation of the dread and the guilt, the seeming futilities and momentary releases of life in Troubles-era Northern Ireland, it’s indelible." -- Emily Firetog - Literary Hub
