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Deirdre Sullivan is from Galway and is now living in Dublin, where she works as a teacher.
Her hugely acclaimed Tangleweed and Brine, a collection of feminist retellings of classic fairytales, won the Children’s Books Ireland Book of the Year Award in 2018 and Young Adult Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards 2017. Previously, her novel Needlework had won the Honour Award for Fiction at the Children’s Books Ireland Awards in 2017.
Sullivan's Primrose Leary series was also widely praised; two of the Prim books were shortlisted for the Children’s Books Ireland Awards; and the final one, Primperfect, was also shortlisted for the European Prize for Literature.
A word of advice: do not read this book after 2 am as you might
start crying – although it’s definitely worth it.
*The Guardian*
The details of the skill, knowledge and painstaking preparation
required are as alluring as the descriptions of delicate, powerful
and enduring images, while the idea of blemishing the skin in order
to create beauty is a metaphor for Ces’s path through life.
*The Observer*
This is a powerful novel that haunts you long after you have read
the final page.
*The Irish Times*
My number one most adored for this year has to be Deirdre
Sullivan’s Needlework.
*The Irish Times*
So beautiful that you won’t want to put it down, even as your heart
is breaking for Ces.
*The Irish Times*
A brave, necessary book that burned into my heart.
*The Irish Times*
Beautiful and poetic.
*The Irish Times*
Material handled with all the delicacy of touch we would expect
from the most talented of tattooists.
*The Irish Times*
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