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IRISH PRAISE FOR

Best Love, Rosie

“This is a rich, frank and heartening novel. It is an excursion and an

education; a long, luxurious wander through a library of bold, beautiful

and inimitable things. It is vintage Nuala, one last time.”

—Belinda Mckeon, The Sunday Irish Times

“Everyone feels like they knew Nuala. And it is impossible to separate

Nuala from the novel—the similarities with both Rosie and Min

are most definitely there—which makes reading it a very strange

experience. The way she brought the D-word into our national

conversation—how she laid bare her life and death in an attempt to

better understand society and the way the world worked—was not

always easy to take. However, her novels are, and it is rather comforting

to have one last bittersweet journey with Nuala.”

—Independent.ie

“…Rosie generally wears her learning, and her philosophy, and her

spirituality, lightly. The novel succeeds in blending the deep and the

shallow, the wise and the mildly absurd, in a series of seamless transitions

from kitchen to library, frocks to philosophy, body to mind.…But the

mixture of the light and the serious is undoubtedly also brought about

by the author’s own attitude to life. O’Faolain was brilliant, educated,

deeply thoughtful, but she was down to earth and despised pretension.

So does her book. That is its great charm, and that is why it resists

categorisation. There will be no ready made niche for it in the bookshop.

It is just Nuala.”

—ÉIlís Ní Dhuibhne, The Irish Times

“The powerful, overriding message in this time-challenging tale

of Min and Rosie is actually a simple one: we are only ever trapped

in our own heads, not our bodies—no matter how old they are.

And so we must grab our chances while we have them, live in the

now and put our best heart forward. Always.

Who else to sum it all up then, than Nuala O’Faolain herself—in the

optimistic words with which she concludes the introduction to her

last ever book: ‘Even the most seemingly moribund life is open to the

possibility of change—in youth, in middle age, and always.’”