Stories to savour
Christine Dwyer Hickey came to prominence back in 2004 when Tatty, her novel of a Dublin childhood, won universal acclaim. She had already published a trilogy set in Dublin, and has since featured the city in two more novels. In The Cold Eye of Heaven, Dublin plays a starring role. This sense of place is central in her first short story collection too; and so skilfully that it seems the city must be rooted in the author’s soul.
Tatty was told through the eyes of a young girl; The Cold Eye of Heaven through those of a dying man, and Dwyer Hickey uses a wide range of narrators in these stories. They cover all ages, all types, and every voice sounds authentic and true.
