Audacious and moving. Bolger’s brilliant conflation of detective story, ghost hunt and history lesson is compulsive.

Alison Foster, The Times (London)

A marvellous, multi-faceted, fascinating read…Ireland itself (its landscape, its tensions and generational conflicts) is brilliantly realized.

Tom Adair in Scotland on Sunday

I was more moved by this book than by anything I have read in a long time. It is utterly heart-breaking. For me it is Bolger’s finest work. .remarkable in its sensitivity and tragic in its accuracy.

Madeleine Keane, Sunday Independent

Father’s Music pulses to the rhythm of a taut romantic thriller. It is the work of a master craftsman, with intricate plotting and the interweaving of characters’ lives casting a hypnotic spell.

Irish Times

A masterly psychological thriller.

The Sunday Telegraph

All 1990s life is there – drink, drugs, political corruption – all the words which have been repeated so often now that they have lost their power to shock. Here, they shock.

The Irish Times