A Mind of Winter

Author: Eoghan Smith

Cover design: Marie Lane  

But this work isn't about plot, it's about rumination on a life not well lived, the life Fox had led up to now. He's a bitter old sod,but his bitterness is at least well written bitterness, clothed in some staggeringly beautiful passages. It's a fine piece of writing, full of admirable craftmanship.

Anne Cunningham in The Meath Chronicle

Smith does a wonderful job of conveying the half-baked thoughts and grievances of a disaffected intellectual, and the images of winter are especially crisp: ‘Every so often, ten or twelve glides or so, I would slow my pace to hear … the soft carelessness of the snow dropping on the gently shuddering hedgerows.’

Connor Harrison in The Literary Review

In A Mind of Winter, Smith has fashioned a bleakly humorous, philosophical, and inescapably human story.

Niall McArdle in Books Ireland