"Donal Ryan's new book is an enthrallingly impassioned and compassionate read, ferocious but humane. All We Shall Know acknowledges the acts of vicious self-destruction the human heart is capable of, but does not accept the irreparability of such acts. To his raw, wounded and grieving characters Donal Ryan says: If you are still breathing, you can be redeemed." -- Colin Barrett "I read it with enormous pleasure. He is a remarkably imaginative and beautiful user of the language. This book is very moving and true. I love the truth in his work." -- Jennifer Johnston "All We Shall Know is really very good. All that we've come to expect from Donal: great humanity and an uncanny sense of place but this time - and at last! - we have a man writing from a woman's point of view in a totally convincing and non-patronising way." -- Christine Dwyer Hickey "Donal Ryan's finest and surest novel yet is a touching, unsentimental tale... Ryan's empathy for his women adds depth, power and humanity to a layered story of love, betrayal and redemption." RTE Guide "Ryan's third novel is an elegant, unflinching, entirely brilliant look at the waywardness of desire... searing honesty that is raw but utterly riveting." Psychologies magazine