The Man Who Loved Crocodile Tamers (2022)
I wept when I finished this book. Not just because I had finished it. Though it was that too. It was a long and intense book which kept me sustained for a long stretch, and became a friend. I had to keep stopping to re-read a sentence, reflect a while on its deeper or double meaning.
Nancy Richards, The Good Book Appreciation Society
Okay, Okay, Okay (2019)
How much do I love this author — let me count the ways. Like Jane Austen, she has a moral vision wrapped in humour.
Lyndall Gordon
The Fetch (2015)
It is a rare thing to read a book that transports the reader right away to another world; that leaves a reader utterly satisfied after it has been read. The Fetch is such a book.
Dineke Volschenk
Homemaking for the Down-at-Heart (2011)
Her writing appears effortless, but in truth every page is crafted and precise. Finuala Dowling is simply a wonderful writer, and Homemaking for the Down-at-Heart is her best book yet.
Karen Scherzinger
Flyleaf (2007)
What Poets Need (2005)
Flyleaf is a novel both poignant and hilarious.
Jane Rosental
..a kind of a paradox… a novel about poetry, a melancholy celebration of the extraordinariness of ordinary things, a love letter that is also a long goodbye, a very funny reflection on the sadness of things, a sad recollection of past joy, a lonely man’s pleasure in the companionableness of his life, a transmutation of loss into fictional gain… Finuala Dowling is … a poet who has written a wonderful novel
Michiel Heyns
Finuala Dowling 