«'Evocative, inventive, vivid and strange Before All the World is a mesmeric, enrapturing read'»

Eimear McBride

«Before All the World is beautiful and original. It is also strange, arresting, high-risk. Very quickly this novel starts to work on the mind, making itself felt in complex and powerful and visionary ways, led by rhythm in the language and the urge to make that language new»

Colm Tóibín

«Before All the World startles and swirls, and makes fresh the experience of language itself. It has it all: a gripping story, an original structure and a tender, ghostly glow»

Justin Torres, author of We the Animals

«Original, daring, experimental, moving, poignant, engaging . . . With shades of Tony Kushner and Cynthia Ozick . . . Before All the World understands how our worlds are made by words, and in the altering of the latter we may as yet redeem the former»

The Millions, 'Most Anticipated Books of 2022'

«A one-of-a-kind creation»

Kirkus Reviews

«Rich and engrossing . . . A powerful story, brilliantly told»

Publishers Weekly, starred review

«Most closely resembles something by Joyce or Beckett . . . A highly original and powerful tale told in defiance of the world's darkness. A highly original and powerful tale told in defiance of the world's darkness»

Stephanie Cross, Daily Mail