"Your skill in creating tension, while grounding it in the legacy of the Romanovs, kept me turning pages with genuine curiosity and investment. It's clear why the book earned recognition from IndieReader.com and the Independent Publishers Awards."
Novelist and playwright; author of The Steward of Christendom and Days Without End; thrice nominated for the Booker Prize; Laureate for Irish Fiction, 2018–21; Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, 2024.