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Anna Burns is either nuts – or quite something! In Little Constructions, her second novel, she tackles murder, rape, incest, child molestation, Kalashnikovs and something very like the IRA with indefatigable irony. She gets across her disgust for senseless, needless violence of the Bush/Blair/Northern Irish or merely familial kind, while being pretty damn funny about it at the same time.
Lucy Ellmann, author of Ducks, Newburyport, reviewing Little Constructions in the Guardian June 2007