John McGahern's Memoir

Via Liz Williams comes news of this new memoir from a writer who doesn't make mistakes, and hasn't been making them for a very long time.

Just the extract will tear small pieces out of your heart.

I am sure it is from those days that I take the belief that the best of life is life lived quietly, where nothing happens but our calm journey through the day, where change is imperceptible and the precious life is everything.