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Levitation For Beginners
“Witty, well-observed and full of heart.. it’s very, very funny but Dunn is not just playing for laughs. There is a profound authenticity to every word spoken, every cultural reference used and every slow piecing together of the background story…This is a wonderful, accessible story full of love, memory and the truth” The Irish Independent
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The Testimony Of Alys Twist
“A beautifully written portrait of the familiar Tudor court from an unfamiliar angle.” The Times
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The Lady Of Misrule
“A wonderful novel, a skilful and moving reimagining of history” Kate Mosse (founder of The Orange Prize)
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The May Bride
“Dunn’s romantic themes and plots end hauntingly in silence, confusion, death, contradictory love affairs-that-were-never-there” Leanne Bibby, Legacies and lifespans in contemporary womens writing
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Confessions Of Katherine Howard
“Gripping, a pageturner, a thriller… Dunn’s book has an incisive insight into how manipulative people work” Dublin Evening Standard. A Richard & Judy Pick
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The Queen’s Sorrow
“…showing us the inner workings of her character’s lives with deft pen strokes and stunning prose. I think she does historical fiction like no one else.” Katherine Clements, The History Girls blog
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The Sixth Wife
“Mesmerising and beautifully written” The Scotsman
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The Queen Of Subtleties
“An extraordinarily vivid account… she carries it off brilliantly” Publishing News
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Commencing Our Descent
“Her writing is as English as treason… Dunn excels at exploring just how thin the line is between innocent conversation and erotic yearning… She reads like an adulterous Jane Austen but without the adultery. This is an enchanting love story of how love happens without itself.” The Daily Express
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Tenterhooks
“Divinely sarcastic and packed full of perky observations, it is very hard to resist” Philip Hensher, Mail on Sunday
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Venus Flaring
“Sensitive, funny…impressively treats a friendship between young women with the sort of grandness and ceremony usually reserved (by novelists) for love affairs” Susie Boyt, The Independent
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Past Caring
“…combines detailed observation of contemporary suburban life with childlike magic” Times Literary Supplement
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Blood Sugar
“In spite of the competition from her daughters’ love affairs and rites of passage, it is Margaret Blaney, queening it in her little world of sausage rolls and defrosting cheesecake, who makes this novel so completely enrapturing. Housework is described in such glimmering prose that it seems like a celebration… Although Dunn’s tone is vinegary, she presents a picture of a woman who refuses to regret her own delusions, which gives the book an odd sweetness.” The Sunday Times
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Quite Contrary
“A luminous, honest and haunting portrait of a single woman doing a demanding job and trying to stay alive inside.” The Scotsman
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Darker Days Than Usual
“A highly promising writer whose work shows a haunting grasp of the unease which lurks in the apparent calm of suburban landscapes” City Limits
