From the writer of The Crying Game, Mistaken is part thriller, part gothic tragedy, part comedy of manners, brilliantly evoking the divided Dublin of the 1960s and the trauma of adolescence

Winner of Hughes Hughes Irish Novel of the Year Award 2011.

Of all his books, Mistaken is perhaps the most universal - funny, mysterious and ultimately moving -- The Times Nothing less than a plangent, incisive poetic wonder of a book -- Irish Times The novel is so precisely written, in every detail, each syllable weighed, or so it feels that reading slowly, you find yourself watermarked by a tale you don't wish to put down, and can't bear to end ... Two thing make this tale a stand-out read: First, Jordan's restraint ... The other coup is the novel's structure - it is essentially an intimate revelation ... unputdownable -- Scotsman Written with great skill, confidence and vim ... utterly convincing: full of subtlety, delicate, piercing prose, charming, lively dialogue and descriptive passages that are poetic, witty and acute. At times it has the pace of a thriller, yet for all its highly specific subject matter it still manages to achieve a feeling of spaciousness in which it is possible for the writer to ponder, with a bit of leisure, the definition of human nature. A fine achievement, a powerful, involving and beautifully written book about identity and loss -- Financial Times Jordan is a fine writer -- Time Out A powerfully atmospheric book which turns Dublin into a murky maze of madness and melancholy -- Daily Mail Neil Jordan has a good eye for visual detail -- TLS

Neil Jordan was born in 1950 in Sligo. He is the author of several critically acclaimed novels including The Past, The Dream of a Beast, Sunrise with Sea Monster, Shade and Night in Tunisia, a collection of short stories which won the Guardian Fiction Prize. He has written, directed and produced a large number of award-winning films including The Crying Game, Michael Collins, The End of the Affair and most recently Ondine. He lives in Dublin.