Irish Writer Alan McMonagle's debut novel, Ithaca, is published by PICADOR (March, 2017).
The book is available from all good bookshops. ![]() |
"It's a stunner"
- Edna O'Brien
"Compelling from start to finish. Read it"
- Patrick McCabe
"Right from its remarkable opening sentence, this extraordinary debut had me hooked. A fierce, funny, on-its-own-terms, beautiful, heartbreaker of a novel"
- Joseph O'Connor
"Fast and urgent and full of feeling and savage humour and all kinds of tenderness"
- Kevin Barry
"Strange and wondrous; savage with vision, leaping with wit and moving in ways that are quite impossible to shake off, Alan McMonagle’s ITHACA is a stunner"
- Belinda McKeon
"Flawless prose and razor dialogue...Mesmerising, unforgettable"
- Donal Ryan
"Full of fierce, elegant, misguided longing, and so finely written"
- Sara Baume
- Edna O'Brien
"Compelling from start to finish. Read it"
- Patrick McCabe
"Right from its remarkable opening sentence, this extraordinary debut had me hooked. A fierce, funny, on-its-own-terms, beautiful, heartbreaker of a novel"
- Joseph O'Connor
"Fast and urgent and full of feeling and savage humour and all kinds of tenderness"
- Kevin Barry
"Strange and wondrous; savage with vision, leaping with wit and moving in ways that are quite impossible to shake off, Alan McMonagle’s ITHACA is a stunner"
- Belinda McKeon
"Flawless prose and razor dialogue...Mesmerising, unforgettable"
- Donal Ryan
"Full of fierce, elegant, misguided longing, and so finely written"
- Sara Baume