Diana Hendry

Small but perfect: So Late in the Day by Claire Keegan reviewed

The author once takes a big issue and, with her characteristic quiet brilliance, illuminates it in a small homely setting

Catherine Clinch in The Quiet Girl, an Irish-language film adaptation of Claire Keegan’s novella Foster. [Alamy]
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  • So Late in the Day

    Claire Keegan

    Faber, pp. 47, £8

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