THE GUARDIAN/Nicola Barr
"It's impossible to look away from this love story – it is unexpectedly quirky, grown-up but pleasingly whimsical. This is How It Ends will leave you feeling utterly bereft to no longer be in its company."
Catherine Flynn/Author
"I was moved by 'This Is How It Ends', a tender - but never sentimental - story of unlikely love."
Vanessa Berridge/The Express
"The issues the book raises are the eternal ones of loss, deceit and inadequacy. MacMahon’s prose fizzes from page one, capturing the imagination and holding the reader."

A heartbreaking love story, set against the dramatic backdrop of Obama's election and the global financial crisis.

"MacMahon is an extraordinarily self-disciplined writer. Her dialogue couldn't appear more naturalistic. Her prose couldn't be tighter; yet it could not appear more effortless or beautiful.....(this) bittersweet, engaging debut .... has Hollywood written all over it" Lorraine Courtney, Sunday Independent.

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MAEVE BINCHY/The Irish Times
"A very satisfying story of people who are easy to believe in and hard to forget."
ANI JOHNSON/The Book Bag
"Reading this means being slowly lulled and then swept away to book heaven where the greatest sadness will be finishing it."
NANCY WIGSTON/ Toronto Star.
"Perhaps only the churlish among us could find fault in a love story that unfolds to a Bruce Springsteen soundtrack on the shores of Dublin Bay. ”