Nothing to Say - Audio Excerpt

"Nothing to Say is about childhood - the most difficult of all stories to tell. Few writers attempt it and those that do usually fail. But this novel about a ten-year-old Dublin boy is a success, a thrilling evocation of boyhood, it makes you feel what it is like to be a child. It is amazing what - with apparently absolute simplicity - Mannix Flynn packs into every page: suspense, comedy, terror, pity, rage, innocence, lyricism, adventure, dream, accident."
Paul Durcan

"If I had the money I would try to get the film rights to this book...a lot of the images are disturbing, but there is not a word of self-pity here and there are times when the language tumbles hilariously. I believe one is meant to conclude 'a good review' by saying how hard it was to put a book down. There were many times when I had to stop reading this one."
Donal McCann