"A wonderful book that should be read by all Irish people and by anyone thinking of moving to Ireland. Written in the words of foreign women living in Ireland, the material is simply presented to the reader to draw their own conclusions, hence the "author" calls herself, quite correctly, the "editor". Because each interview is a separate work, the book should be perfect for reading piecemeal, but I found I couldn't put it down. There is something irresistibly voyeuristic about having someone's life and feeling summarised and feelings summarised on three or four pages, and as an Irish person I loved the chance to "see ourselves as others see us". I was constantly nodding, thinking "yes, we really are like that," even if I didn't like what was being said."

            "A reader" from Ireland living in Tokyo. Customer review posted on Amazon.co.uk:

"This book coherently presents the intimate life stories of 61 women. Each one is as good as any short story. The women come across as honest and forthright.... Knight says in the introduction that she has endeavoured to maintain the individual voice of each of the women. She has done this so well that at the end of each interview you can't help but wish there was phone number or an address -- just so you could respond to their experience, hopes and dreams."

                                                Rose Costello, Sunday Business Post

"If this book occasionally highlights the more negative sides of Irish life, it may also, in itself, be an agent of change. Susan Knight's achievement is to have given these women a voice with which to communicate to the established Ireland and help to make it a more pluralist, positive place."

                                                Roberta Gray, Metro Eireann

"Where the Grass is Greener: Voices of Immigrant Women in Ireland... is simultaneously a careful mosaic of outsider experience, a unique document of the changing morals, fortunes, temper and pace of Ireland today.... Whether we have become more racist, or were always racist, but never had the chance to exercise our racism, remains arguable. All of Knight's interviewees sit self-consciously at society's edges, however, never quite accepted. Unsurprising, it might be said, when a recent Amnesty International survey found less than one third of respondents would welcome Travellers, asylum seekers or members of ethnic minorities into their communities."

                                                Pol O Conghaile, Irish Independent