Gripping, eerie and poignant, a love story of music, storytelling and a secret past with a dark twist that brings redemption. Elegant and lyrical, this is a really beautiful novel. - Simon Sebag Montefiore

In this subtle and affecting novel, where damaged people are linked by music, fractured memory and a kind of magic, Neil Jordan delivers the exactness of observation and economical punch which has always characterised his fiction. - Roy Foster

Magical and compelling from beginning to end... a fairy tale for our times. - Patrick McCabe

This is a marvellous novel - literally, for it is filled with marvels. Neil Jordan is best known these days as a film-maker, but as The Well of Saint Nobody vigorously attests, he has lost none of his skills, of his magical skills, as a novelist. - John Banv