The stories in High Ground are set in ordinary places, in the streets and suburbs and dancehalls of Dublin, the small towns and fields of the midlands, the big houses of the beleaguered Anglo-Irish in the aftermath of their ascendancy, the whole changing country propelled in a generation from the nineteenth into the late twentieth century.
'A strikingly good collection.' - London Review of Books
'A scrupulously lyrical collectino from an artist in his prime.' - Observer
'He writes with authority and gravity, and with an instinct for the most appropriate detail.' - Times Literary Supplement
