Mary Costello is the author of two previous novels and two short story collections. Her debut novel, Academy Street, won the Irish Novel of the Year Award and was shortlisted for several prizes. She lives in the west of Ireland.

"In each of her previous novels and story collections, the Irish author Mary Costello has revealed the inner vastness hidden within even the quietest lives. Her latest book, A Beautiful Loan, goes further, with a faithful, poetic exploration of the multitudes we contain and what it means to be human. . . . the significance and profundity [Costello] renders to each and every life is a measure of her depth of attention, and perhaps why there is no greater chronicler of the inner life at this moment. As artificial intelligence and big tech force an increasingly diminished definition upon us of what it means to be human, this novel reminds us that we are so much more."

Mary Costello is the author of two previous novels and two short story collections. Her debut novel, Academy Street, won the Irish Novel of the Year Award and was shortlisted for several prizes. She lives in the west of Ireland.

"In each of her previous novels and story collections, the Irish author Mary Costello has revealed the inner vastness hidden within even the quietest lives. Her latest book, A Beautiful Loan, goes further, with a faithful, poetic exploration of the multitudes we contain and what it means to be human. . . . the significance and profundity [Costello] renders to each and every life is a measure of her depth of attention, and perhaps why there is no greater chronicler of the inner life at this moment. As artificial intelligence and big tech force an increasingly diminished definition upon us of what it means to be human, this novel reminds us that we are so much more."