{"product_id":"no-small-thing-9781800815582b","title":"No Small Thing","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eWINNER OF THE 2025 KATE O'BRIEN AWARD\u003cbr\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlone among the lush tangle of plants on his balcony, Earl watches as a broken family reunites in the flat below.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere's Livia, who has been running for long enough to think her past might never catch up with her. Now she's forced to catch her breath and face the daughter she left behind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThen Mickey, angry about having a mother who left, a father who died, about the mess she's made of her own life. With no other place to go, she needs the mother who abandoned her.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd Summer, whose new grandmother is weird, and whose mum is always sad or out looking for men to distract her. Left to roam, she finds friends who are willing to give her the attention that Mickey won't. But are they as kind as she thinks they are?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a novel about the power and pain of mothering. It crackles with desire, burns with hope and sings in a voice as compelling as it is true.\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e'A taut generational story set on a South London estate' \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eIndependent\u003c\/span\u003e, July Book of the Month\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'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' \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'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' Priscilla Morris, Women's Prize shortlisted author of \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eBlack Butterflies\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Serpent's Tail","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42825163407440,"sku":"9781800815582B","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9781800815582-l.jpg?v=1785899691","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/fr\/products\/no-small-thing-9781800815582b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}