When All is Said
Anne Griffin
2019 • Hachette
Writing is all about re-writing, your masterpiece doesn’t come out in one smooth, glorious sitting. Listen to the feedback you get, you don’t need to take it all on board but you should consider it thoroughly nevertheless.
— Anne Griffin
When All is Said
Anne Griffin
2019 • Hachette
Writing is all about re-writing, your masterpiece doesn’t come out in one smooth, glorious sitting. Listen to the feedback you get, you don’t need to take it all on board but you should consider it thoroughly nevertheless.
— Anne Griffin
Description
‘I’m here to remember – all that I have been and all that I will never be again.’
At the bar of a grand hotel in a small Irish town sits 84-year-old Maurice Hannigan. He’s alone, as usual -though tonight is anything but. Pull up a stool and charge your glass, because Maurice is finally ready to tell his story.
Over the course of this evening, he will raise five toasts to the five people who have meant the most to him. Through these stories – of unspoken joy and regret, a secret tragedy kept hidden, a fierce love that never found its voice – the life of one man will be powerfully and poignantly laid bare.
Excerpts
Interviews
- The Gloss:’ Get to Know Bestselling Debut Author Anne Griffin’
- Goodreads: 'When All Is Said' Is a Debut Novel Worth Toasting
- Goodreads: Ask the Author – Anne Griffin
- The Reading Lists: Anne Griffin - Writing is all about Rewriting
Prizes & Awards
Reviews
- Alfred Hickling, The Guardian
- Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, The Irish Times
- Eileen Dunne, RTÉ
- Joanne Hayden, Irish Independent
- Caitlin Hicks, New York Journal of Books
- Francesca Angelini, The Times
- John G. Matthews, Library Journal
- Ian Schwartz, Bookpage
- Writing.ie
- Publishers Weekly
- Kirkus
Audio
- Top Shelf at Merrick Library: Interview with Anne Griffin, Author of When All Is Said
- The Book Show: With Shaun Bythell and Anne Griffin
- Super Brain: Earwigging with Anne Griffin
- The Books that Made Me: Anne Griffin
- Leaves on Air: Anne Griffin in Conversation with Dermot Bolger
Video
- Easons Ireland: Anne Griffin Reads an Extract from her Wonderful Debut Novel ‘When All Is Said’
- Easons Ireland: #EasonsAsks – Anne Griffin
- Waterstones: Shelfie with Anne Griffin
- Rick O’Shea: Shelf Analysis – Anne Griffin
- UCD Festival: Masters of their Art – Dave Rudden with Helen Cullen and Anne Griffin
- Michelle Cronauer: Author Interview – Anne Griffin – When All is Said
