After a Dance: Selected Stories (Hardback)

To call [these stories] characterful is to undersell these Technicolor prose screams, these screeching narrative sprints, this filthy feast of stories. Think Irvine Welsh meets Edna O’Brien . . . pure, delicious naughty fun. - The Times

These are some of the wildest, arresting, just plain brilliant short stories I've read in a long time. - Roddy Doyle, author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

A storytelling genius before her time - The Irish Times

Wickedly funny, stylishly written, I relished each and every one of these stories - Patrick McCabe, author of The Butcher Boy

Every O’Connor story is a performance, a live fight with time and decay, disgust and the human body. She wrote intensely from her time and place; to read her now is to be catapulted back to 1990s London. Yet the voice, the themes are more relevant than ever. No wonder she was so preoccupied with temporality: she was before her time. - Martina Evans, The Irish Times

'[Bridget O'Connor] was an incredible short story writer . . . hilarious, tragic, shuddering - Laura Hackett, The Times

'Mostly brief, sometimes brutal, always funny . . . a master of the [short story]. The results are both vivacious and vicious. But even at their most painful, they sing - The Herald

Bridget O'Connor creates unforgettable voices . . . Sad, funny, disturbing, the tales in After a Dance are odd, and oddly luminous - Times Literary Supplement

These stories have more electricity in them than many novels - Guardian

In this new collection her most accomplished and most devastating stories lie side by side. O’Connor writes of everyday characters so pitiful they are ridiculous, so awful they become lovable . . . The language is unexpected and the twists are often absurd. Reading O’Connor is always a delight - New Statesman