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So Late in the Day

The Sunday Times bestseller
Brief Description
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. After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the bus home.... Read More
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So Late in the Day

An exquisite short story from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Small Things Like These and Foster.

An exquisite short story from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Small Things Like These and Foster.

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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.

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 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 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.'

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780571398041

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 28 August 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Faber & Faber

Edition: Main

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 64

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 Thesewas 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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