тАШDysfunctional Ireland in all its glories is here, with humour of the blackest hue, madness and violence, hopelessly randy priests, dodgy politicians, a grand gallery of misfits culminating in McCabeтАЩs hero in Breakfast on Pluto, Patrick тАЬPussyтАЭ Braden, the transvestite prostitute from the village of Tyreelin . . . Wild, hilarious, merciless and fiendishly cleverтАЩ Ronan Farren, Sunday Independent
тАШHe is the fortunate possessor of a savage and unfettered imagination; his books . . . dissect lifeтАЩs miseries with a gleaming comedic scalpelтАЩ Erica Wagner, The Times
тАШIt finds humour in places that other writers are afraid to look for itтАЩ David Robson, Sunday Telegraph
тАШThis is a savagely funny and authentically tragic novel of an Ireland in unhappy transition and beneath McCabeтАЩs perfectly delivered black comedy lies an angry heartтАЩ GQ Magazine
тАШWithout drawing breath, McCabe mixes camp comedy with brutality, making Breakfast on Pluto both funny and deeply shockingтАЩ Maxim
тАШTold with irresistible zest, brio and gaiety . . . McCabeтАЩs brilliant, startling talent is to make enchantingly dashing narratives out of the most ghastly states of mind imaginable, and to induce compassion for lives which seem least to invite it . . . He is a dark genius of incongruity and the grotesqueтАЩ Hermione Lee, Observer