"Ger Reidy writes with an insider's knowledge of nature - his careful observations of landscape and flora and fauna bring the fields and salty air of Connacht alive, along with its football games, marts, and the sound of cattle being called home. Yet Reidy's world is a human, and humane, one too - characters come and go across his pages, participants in a gala dance, immigrants, individuals with history on their backs. All in all Clay is a triumph, a book 'allowing the senses to feed /into the unlimited joy of awareness'."-   James Harpur.