About The Author

Susan Knight is the author of two earlier novels and one non-fiction book. She has received several prizes for her short stories and plays, notably the James Plunkett memorial award in 2004 and the Bryan McMahon short story award in 2007. She has featured on both Sunday Miscellany and Lyric FM's the Quiet Quarter. She lives in Dublin.

Praise for Susan Knight

The Invisible Woman

The story itself is fractured but the abrasive voice which links the different elements, like muscle linking bones, has a convincing fibre and justifies the difficulties of style and sequence. Reading this book is rather like doing a jigsaw in the dark: you feel it rather than see it.

Mary Leland, Cork Examiner

A powerful novel about self-deception, alienation and the wasting of a life – sometimes heart-breakingly sad, always totally compelling.

Glenda Sheridan

Grimaldi's Garden

Grimaldi's Garden flies along in a rushing series of vignettes that gradually intermingle the lives of her characters most of whom “keep moving to disguise the fact that they are standing still”… They are escaping from the need to escape as their despair gives way to something more positive.