William2's Reviews > The Little Red Chairs

I never use the word love with regard to novels, but here it's necessary. This is an absolutely astonishing book. Every page possesses new wonders and great literary pleasure. Philip Roth called it O'Brien's "masterpiece." High praise methinks. It's the most rewarding book I've read so far this year — except perhaps for Old God's Time by Sebastian Barry, also an Irish writer. BTW, O'Brien wrote this one while in her eighties.