Another Claire Keegan, another brilliant story. She has an unmatched talent for building up character psychologies through few words, and a wonderful touch of realism all her own. As per what I feel can be called the hallmark of her works, her characters don’t end up having surpassed the bigger conflict, don’t get to be better off. The changes are often small, sometimes detrimental, and in this lies the impact.

Without giving away too much (as it’s only a little story) I especially loved that the third person narrator also touched on the dog’s perspective — those for me were both sad and heartwarming.