Roddy Doyle excelled himself A typically bittersweet novella about a middle-aged mans memories of his schooldays which pulls the rug shockingly from under the readers feet. -- Justine Jordan * Guardian, Books of the Year * A book that made me feel I really was in the presence of a master. -- Sebastian Barry * Observer * Reading Smile, one is swept along as in all Doyles novels by the vibrancy of the language, the vivid sense of character and place, but nothing prepares you for the final few pages where, in a twist of imaginative brilliance, everything you have read is turned completely on its head Smile is beautifully written, and beautifully observed -- Mick Brown * Daily Telegraph * Terribly moving and even, at times, distressing, while saving its greatest surprise until the end There is a brave and complex ending to the novel It will inspire debate but also admiration for the courage of a hugely successful writer who refuses to be predictable and uses the novel to challenge both the readers sense of ease and the nature of the form itself. -- John Boyne * Guardian * Smile turns out to be a novel of literary deception and self-deception, of suppression, guilt, fantasy and the deep damage that leaves a mind profoundly disordered I suspect Smile will become a bestseller -- Linda Grant * Daily Telegraph * Dramatically pulls the rug from under the reader with a final image not just of one damaged man, but of an impotent country poisoned to the core by a history that it cannot shake off. It left me with goosebumps and, a week on, a sour, sad taste still in my mouth. -- Claire Allfree * Daily Mail * The cocktail of dark subject matter and colloquial, humorous dialogue is quintessential Doyle, and this engrossing tale, shot through with pathos, sees him back to his best. -- Max Davidson * Mail on Sunday * His command of voice is absolutely sure, his dialogue authentic and the Ireland his characters inhabit still a patchwork of fifties pietism and noughties cosmopolitanism completely available to his and the readers understanding An absorbing and expertly told story. -- Sam Leith * Financial Times * Doyle is one of the best writers of dialogue we have, using it with humour and drama. -- Luke Brown * New Statesman * His novels fizz with demotic zing, comic phrasing and the back-and-forth of Irish chat. -- Robbie Millen * The Times *
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