Back to Blackbrick

will an adult audience who need and want to understand how to come to terms with terminal illness, disease and memory loss. A book not to miss. ARMADILLO MAGAZINE The characters are well-drawn in this absorbing and thought-provoking timeslip novel. Sarah Moore Fitzgerald tells a moving and original story of love and loss with both humour and understanding.' BOOK TRUST A tear-jerker with lessons in how to live life to the full. -- Nicolette Jones THE SUNDAY TIMES ...a clever, engaging story of a teenager who finds an unexpected way to deal with the gradual disintegration of his grandfather's memories and personality. -- Josh Lacey THE GUARDIAN 20130316 A compelling time shift drama about love and loss. -- Sarah Webb IRISH INDEPENDENT This beautiful novel is deceptively easy to read; the story rattles along while dealing sensitively with issues of love, loss, illness and memory. It's a moving and poignant story, but there are funny moments, too. Back to Blackbrick is an impressive debut novel that already feels like a classic. WE LOVE THIS BOOK 20130101 This beautifully-written time-slip novel explores memory loss, grief and family relationships. It's narrated in a lively 21st-century voice by Cosmo, who lives with his grandparents. We learn that Cosmo's mother has gone to Australia to work and that his brother Brian died in an accident. His grandfather, Kevin, is in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, and Cosmo searches the internet trying to find a way to reverse his beloved grandfather's memory loss. HISTORICAL NOVELS SOCIETY I haven't been able to get Back to Blackbrick out of my mind since I read it. It's a deep, thought-provoking debut by an Irish author, showing the depths of family love and the horror when these bonds begin to fray from tragedy. It also shows the stark class divide in Irish society a century ago, and the power and control held by the rich over their staff, and the portrayal of these themes make this novel more suitable for 12+. Above all, however, this is a novel about families and love and deserves to be read by as many people as possible. -- Helen Corcoran, Grafton Street DUBRAY BOOKS I enjoyed the book so much. The adventure, the mystery, and the characters all work wonderfully in story telling terms but the big message is that love is the key. To be loved is to be known and without that, we're lost, whatever our circumstances. This book deserves to be read by people of all ages. It's a delight. -- Lindsay Duncan, Patron Alzheimer's Research UK An engaging and touching love story which is full of surprises. Sarah is a fine storyteller. Arthur Mathews - co-writer of Father Ted