This novel's arrival deserves a trumpeting fanfare... curiously brilliant, intricately entertaining... <b>banker plus struggling novelist equals page turner</b>
Sunday Independent
<i>The Mark and the Void</i> is <b>so sensationally good</b>...it takes the global financial crisis by its throat, and shakes it into giving birth to a <b>wild, intelligent, angry, witty, uproariously funny, devastating</b> novel
- Neel Mukherjee,
People always tell me <b>'If you love Paul Murray so much, why don't you marry him?'</b> Now thanks to recent legislation in his native Ireland, I finally can. And so should you, reader. <i>The Mark and the Void</i> not only monetizes the death of the novel, but makes us believe in its resurrection. Praise the Lord for Paul Murray's big brain and tender heart
- Gary Shteyngart,
<i>The Mark and the Void</i> is just as funny [as <i>Skippy Dies</i>] , though perhaps with an even deeper sense of alienation at its heart
Independent
<b>Effervescent prose</b>... [It] takes on the crackle of a thriller [and] wears its anger over the global financial crisis with a <b>beguilingly, deceptively light touch</b>
Metro
Paul Murray has done the impossible: he's written a novel about international finance that is <b>a hilarious page-turner with a beating human heart</b>
- Adam Wilson, author of 'Flatscreen',
<i>The Mark and the Void</i> is Murray's best book yet - a <b>wildly ambitious, state-of-the-nation novel</b>, and a<b> scabrously funny yet deeply humane</b> satire on the continuing fall-out of the biggest financial crisis in 75 years. Think <i>Bonfire of the Vanities</i> with a heart
The Bookseller