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Life’s little graces: Small Rain, by Garth Greenwell, reviewed

An unnamed narrator, confined to hospital with a torn aorta, reminisces about his past life in Bulgaria, his love of poetry and the happy domesticity he shared with his partner

5 October 2024

9:00 AM

5 October 2024

9:00 AM

Small Rain Garth Greenwell

Picador, pp.320, 18.99

Garth Greenwell has made a name for himself as a chronicler of touch. In his previous novels, What Belongs to You (2016) and Cleanness (2020), the intimacy of a lover’s hand or the frisson of something much darker – the spit, the slap of a BDSM session – could expand to fill whole paragraphs: stories in themselves of layered sensation and reminiscence.

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