I really wanted to love this book more than I did. I knew this book had been controversial/banned when it first came out in 1965 so I was expecting a…
A novella that follows a lonely Friday summer evening during which Cathal leaves his Dublin office, takes the bus home, and wanders around his place, thinking about Sabine. Sabine, the…
Happy to have finally read this, it’s always a pleasure to sit down with a book like this. For such a short book I feel like it’s a slow burn?!…
Another read that I had been anticipating: Keegan’s novella did not disappoint. It’s a really satisfying well-paced narrative that totally transports you to its pre-Christmas atmosphere: tired, fraught, social, yet…