'Evocative, carefully crafted and full of heart, What Willow Says explores a very special relationship between a grandmother and her granddaughter. Weaving together myth, magic and beautiful depictions of the natural world Buckle takes you on a captivating journey through a very private world.';(Jan Carson - author of The Fire Starters and winner of the EU Prize for Literature); 'This is a beautiful, lyrical love story between a grandmother and granddaughter - between the human and the other than human - between the known and the unknown. Birds and echoes, loss and language - trees and bog, myth and memory - family and folklore, existence and elegy; this quiet story is as exquisitely sculpted as bog oak, and will - like the storms it tells of - leave traces deep inside of you. A moving, delicate book for this moment.';(Kerri ni Dochartaigh - author of Thin Places); 'A powerful, moving book...Every sentence, phrase and word is worth savouring.';(Estelle Birdy - The Irish Independent)
