Claire Keegan On Regret And Love Lost
Claire Keegan turns an ordinary journey into a devastating act of reflection. The compactness is part of the power: every detail matters, every omission resonates, and readers who value finely made literary fiction will find plenty in its controlled emotional intensity.
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Claire Keegan On Regret And Love Lost
Claire Keegan turns an ordinary journey into a devastating act of reflection. The compactness is part of the power: every detail matters, every omission resonates, and readers who value finely made literary fiction will find plenty in its controlled emotional intensity.
- Book Synopsis
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Ideal for readers who:
- Read literary fiction that works through precision, silence and emotional pressure.
- Are drawn to stories of regret and the private reckoning that follows.
- Would be held by a bus journey home and the memory of love lost.
- Prefer brief, exquisitely written books with quiet force.
From the bestselling author, Claire Keegan, an exquisitely written story which finds an unsatisfied man on his bus journey home reflect on the love that got away.
'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 might 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 world's great writers, So Late in the Day 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.
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.'
- About The Author
- Claire Keegan's works of fiction are critically acclaimed international bestsellers - and have been translated into more than thirty-five 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 - the world's richest prize for a short story. Small Things Like These, a New York Times Best Book of the 21st Century, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Rathbones Folio Prize and won the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award. So Late in the Day was published in the New Yorker and shortlisted for the British Book Awards. Keegan was awarded Woman of the Year for Literature in Ireland in 2022, Author of the Year 2023, the Seamus Heaney Award for Arts and Letters 2024 and most recently the Siegfried Lenz Prize.
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- ISBN
- 9780571398041
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber, (28 August 2025)
- Number of Pages
- 47
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 198 x 129 mm
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