“FICTION: All Names Have Been Changed by Claire Kilroy, Faber and Faber, 270pp. £12.99: … A campus novel, right down to its very structure, the book is divided into three parts to reflect the academic year in which the action takes place – Michelmas Term, Hilary Term and Trinity Term – with chapter headings taking their names from Irish novels, plays, song titles and lyrics (Brendan Behan alongside Shane MacGowan, appropriately enough). Set in and around Trinity College in the mid-1980s, it is narrated by Declan, the sole male in a group of five mature students embarking on a creative-writing course taught by PJ Glynn, a celebrated and infamously difficult novelist …” (more)
[Catherine Heaney, Irish Times, 2 May]