No Small Thing: 'One of the best debut novels I’ve read in recent years' Bernardine Evaristo
Autor Orlaine McDonalden Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 iun 2025
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781800815599
ISBN-10: 180081559X
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Ediția:Main
Editura: Profile
Colecția Serpent's Tail
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 180081559X
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Ediția:Main
Editura: Profile
Colecția Serpent's Tail
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Orlaine McDonald is a writer of mixed Jamaican and Irish heritage, and lives in London. This is her first novel.
Recenzii
One of the best debut novels I've read in recent years ... Intense, visceral and beautifully written
No Small Thing never lapses into sentimentality, earning every bit of its considerable pathos ... an accomplished novel that, in its very attention to the ordinary, is among the most unusual and refreshing debuts I have read this year
A spare, haunting tale
McDonald is skilled at investing her characters with complicated vitality ... This highly promising debut invests the small things that are so easily taken for granted with quietly shattering significance
Impressively, McDonald never attempts special pleading or excusing, instead painting a bleak but toughly empathetic picture
Exquisite... This novel acknowledges the possibility of breaking the generational cycles of harm. The narrative hums with longing, addressing the harm that comes from feeling un-loved and unseen. But McDonald offers such hope for change in the face of the powers that be. This beautiful book will stay with you. Hold it tightly.
From the powerful opening scene full of tragedy, this poignant debut about mothers and daughters really gets under your skin. The story is told over a year on a South London estate and it follows three generations of women who have all lost their way and are counting on each other to get back on track
A crackling fire of a story ... No Small Thing is a poetic, emotional and gripping insight into race, parenthood and class in modern Britain. Compelling and unforgettable, this is a marvellous debut
An astute debut and an invigorating read
A taut generational story set on a south London estate
A poetic , emotional and gripping insight into race , parenthood and class in modern Britain. Compelling and unforgettable, this is a marvellous debut.
A gem of a book about mothers and daughters, about being Black and working class in today's London. Beautiful writing, taut with emotion, poetry and insight.
A crackling fire of a story ... this is a poetic, emotional and gripping insight into parenthood, race and class in modern Britain
I loved the depiction of the joy and pain of Black working-class life in Britain, in which three generations of women reckon with inequalities and inherited trauma over a year. McDonald drew on her experience of working with children for this novel.
This follows the story of three generations of women living on a South London estate, set over one year. All are lost and hurting and trying to find their way. I felt their angst and pain through the pages. Gritty and palpable
A strong debut ... McDonald demonstrates skill
A poetic, emotional and gripping insight into parenthood, race and class in modern Britain
A lovely debut, full of truth, tenderness and steely grace: a highly promising first novel
Raw and beautiful: the joys and the torments of the mother-daughter bond, cascading down three brilliantly-observed generations
An absolute gem of class literature that's sexy, politically astute, emotionally intelligent, and rivetingly paced in prose that eases between fiery and tender, just like the relationships it so beautifully draws us into
A moving story of maternal love, desire and damage. Orlaine McDonald explores the destructive and redeeming power of this defining relationship when the lives of grandmother, daughter and granddaughter collide over the course of a life changing summer. A bold debut, beautifully written
Beautifully layered and compelling, No Small Thing is a rich and poetic exploration of love, loss and betrayal across three generations of women - a multifaceted and important story of mothers and daughters told with tenderness and warmth. A bold and powerful debut
A taut novel about mothers and daughters, layered with emotions and complex with power and desires, No Small Thing is a raw novel that explores how betrayal and love are linked.
Tender, tense, and utterly devastating, No Small Thing is a slow and skilful unveiling of motherhood in all its brutal complexities. An unforgettable book
No Small Thing is sensuous and layered, wrapping me up so completely that closing the book felt like waking up. There is a terrible, compelling urgency throughout the narrative and I finished the book feeling at one devastated and hopeful
No Small Thing never lapses into sentimentality, earning every bit of its considerable pathos ... an accomplished novel that, in its very attention to the ordinary, is among the most unusual and refreshing debuts I have read this year
A spare, haunting tale
McDonald is skilled at investing her characters with complicated vitality ... This highly promising debut invests the small things that are so easily taken for granted with quietly shattering significance
Impressively, McDonald never attempts special pleading or excusing, instead painting a bleak but toughly empathetic picture
Exquisite... This novel acknowledges the possibility of breaking the generational cycles of harm. The narrative hums with longing, addressing the harm that comes from feeling un-loved and unseen. But McDonald offers such hope for change in the face of the powers that be. This beautiful book will stay with you. Hold it tightly.
From the powerful opening scene full of tragedy, this poignant debut about mothers and daughters really gets under your skin. The story is told over a year on a South London estate and it follows three generations of women who have all lost their way and are counting on each other to get back on track
A crackling fire of a story ... No Small Thing is a poetic, emotional and gripping insight into race, parenthood and class in modern Britain. Compelling and unforgettable, this is a marvellous debut
An astute debut and an invigorating read
A taut generational story set on a south London estate
A poetic , emotional and gripping insight into race , parenthood and class in modern Britain. Compelling and unforgettable, this is a marvellous debut.
A gem of a book about mothers and daughters, about being Black and working class in today's London. Beautiful writing, taut with emotion, poetry and insight.
A crackling fire of a story ... this is a poetic, emotional and gripping insight into parenthood, race and class in modern Britain
I loved the depiction of the joy and pain of Black working-class life in Britain, in which three generations of women reckon with inequalities and inherited trauma over a year. McDonald drew on her experience of working with children for this novel.
This follows the story of three generations of women living on a South London estate, set over one year. All are lost and hurting and trying to find their way. I felt their angst and pain through the pages. Gritty and palpable
A strong debut ... McDonald demonstrates skill
A poetic, emotional and gripping insight into parenthood, race and class in modern Britain
A lovely debut, full of truth, tenderness and steely grace: a highly promising first novel
Raw and beautiful: the joys and the torments of the mother-daughter bond, cascading down three brilliantly-observed generations
An absolute gem of class literature that's sexy, politically astute, emotionally intelligent, and rivetingly paced in prose that eases between fiery and tender, just like the relationships it so beautifully draws us into
A moving story of maternal love, desire and damage. Orlaine McDonald explores the destructive and redeeming power of this defining relationship when the lives of grandmother, daughter and granddaughter collide over the course of a life changing summer. A bold debut, beautifully written
Beautifully layered and compelling, No Small Thing is a rich and poetic exploration of love, loss and betrayal across three generations of women - a multifaceted and important story of mothers and daughters told with tenderness and warmth. A bold and powerful debut
A taut novel about mothers and daughters, layered with emotions and complex with power and desires, No Small Thing is a raw novel that explores how betrayal and love are linked.
Tender, tense, and utterly devastating, No Small Thing is a slow and skilful unveiling of motherhood in all its brutal complexities. An unforgettable book
No Small Thing is sensuous and layered, wrapping me up so completely that closing the book felt like waking up. There is a terrible, compelling urgency throughout the narrative and I finished the book feeling at one devastated and hopeful