Book description
*From the Booker-shortlisted author of Small Things Like These*
Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.
The evening is fine. In the sky a few early stars are shining of their own accord.…
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Only Claire Keegan can write like this: a world, a life history, in one tiny book.
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