So Late in the Day: The Sunday Times bestseller
Aug 2023 · Faber & Faber
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From the bestselling author, Claire Keegan, a n exquisitely written story which finds an unsatisfied man on his bus journey home reflect on the love that got away.
AN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR
'A genuine once-in-a-generation writer.' The Times
'Every word is the right word in the right place, and the effect is resonant and deeply moving.' Hilary Mantel
'Claire Keegan makes her moments real - and then she makes them matter.' Colm Tóibín
After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the bus home. There, his mind agitates over a woman named Sabine with whom he could have spent his life, had he acted differently. All evening, with only the television and a bottle of champagne for company, thoughts of this woman and others intrude - and the true significance of this particular date is revealed.
From one of the finest writers working today, Keegan's new story asks if a lack of generosity might ruin what could be between men and women.
Claire Keegan's book So Late in the Day was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 02-09-2023
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Readers love So Late in the Day:
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ' You'll finish this novella in one sitting, but you will be hooked to the author for life!'
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ' Claire Keegan is a master of the English language and able to conjure so much in so little.'
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ' Keegan is a genius.'
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'All her stories are little gems to brighten the way.'
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'You can see everything that Claire describes so clearly, her writing is mesmerising.'
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Keegan really does know how to capture the imagination of readers.'
AN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR
'A genuine once-in-a-generation writer.' The Times
'Every word is the right word in the right place, and the effect is resonant and deeply moving.' Hilary Mantel
'Claire Keegan makes her moments real - and then she makes them matter.' Colm Tóibín
After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the bus home. There, his mind agitates over a woman named Sabine with whom he could have spent his life, had he acted differently. All evening, with only the television and a bottle of champagne for company, thoughts of this woman and others intrude - and the true significance of this particular date is revealed.
From one of the finest writers working today, Keegan's new story asks if a lack of generosity might ruin what could be between men and women.
Claire Keegan's book So Late in the Day was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 02-09-2023
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Readers love So Late in the Day:
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ' You'll finish this novella in one sitting, but you will be hooked to the author for life!'
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ' Claire Keegan is a master of the English language and able to conjure so much in so little.'
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ' Keegan is a genius.'
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'All her stories are little gems to brighten the way.'
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'You can see everything that Claire describes so clearly, her writing is mesmerising.'
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Keegan really does know how to capture the imagination of readers.'
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3.7
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December 18, 2023
Claire Keegan couldn't write a bad story if she tried
About the author
Claire Keegan's stories are translated into more than thirty languages. Antarctica won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. Walk the Blue Fields won the Edge Hill Prize for the finest collection of stories published in the British Isles. Foster won the Davy Byrnes Award and in 2020 was chosen by The Times as one of the top fifty works of fiction to be published in the twenty-first century. Small Things Like These was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Rathbones Folio Prize, awarded for the best work of literature, regardless of form, to be published in the English language. It won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award, the Ambassadors' Prize and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction.
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