“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

“A fabulous storyteller and a great writer, we all need to keep hearing Bridget’s voice” -Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting

“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” -The Times Literary Supplement