“Trials and tragedies can spur artists to great heights, but they can also undermine everything they’ve worked for. Such is the weighty conundrum behind Eoin Lane’s Beyond the Horizon, about six decades of an artist’s life on the breathtakingly beautiful shores of Ireland…Lane’s spare but precise prose sings…As Colin’s quest leads him from Ireland to the United States, Italy, and back again to Ireland for a poignant conclusion, Lane spins a thoughtful tale of artistic integrity and redemption.”

“A haunting and heartfelt novel, Beyond the Horizon is an utterly transporting tale of love, loss, and artistic passion. Eoin Lane’s debut heralds the arrival of a striking new talent.”

“A stunning read! Moving. Couldn’t put it down. The author being a painter as well as a writer makes for a real tour de force.”

“I was transported rapidly into the world of Colin Larkin to embark on a journey of tragedy, creativity, love, and loss in an emotion-filled story. Lane has a gift for poetic visual storytelling that reels you in and helps you combine images with text to heighten the experience and ultimately connect the reader to all the themes and threads throughout.”

“Eoin Lane’s Beyond the Horizon is a book for anyone who loves Ireland, loves the sea, and loves art—particularly, the painter’s dangerous romance, or passionate duel, with canvas and paint. Lane’s deep understanding of this process, both its tragedies and its triumphs, animates every page, every word.”

“Eoin Lane has crafted an intensely visual novel, capturing a play of light and shadow, and the substance of a life lived on the seam between brightness and grief.”

“Eoin Lane uses words like brush strokes as he tells Colin’s story, describing in a painterly way how storm clouds gather on his horizon, buffeting him and those around him. Driven by his creativity he learns cope with loss, love, and friendship, seeking shafts of sun to light his canvas.”

“Eoin Lane’s Beyond the Horizon creates a portrait of the inner-life of a man as vivid and striking as any Irish landscape. With graceful, assured prose Lane crafts a moving mediation on trauma, loss, and the redemptive power of art.”

“Having known Eoin back when we both started out as painters many years ago, I found Beyond the Horizon interesting to have such a formative experience seen through his eyes. A moving, sensitive first novel that deals with love, loss, and the journey of an Irish artist across the topography of an evolving cultural and personal landscape.”

“Eoin Lane’s dual talents as both artist and author are brought together with stunning effect in his novel, Beyond the Horizon. Language and image are artfully combined in this portrayal of the mind and heart of an artist, the obsession that drove his art, and the toll it exacted on his personal life. Poetic, evocative, and rich in visual imagery, this book draws us into the consciousness of the artist, and the elemental forces of ocean, horizon, and sky that shaped his art.”

“An artist with natural talent, Colin lives through his senses. There are tragedies, love affairs, and betrayals but it’s his art that carries his life along. A beautiful and poetic debut, I adored it.”