So Late in the Day: Stories of Men and Women

by Claire Keegan

so much of life carrying smoothly on, despite the tangle of human upsets and the knowledge of how everything must end.

‘She said things may now be changing, but that a good half of men your age just want us to shut up and give you what you want, that you’re spoiled and turn contemptible when things don’t go your way.’

That was the problem with women falling out of love; the veil of romance fell away from their eyes, and they looked in and could read you.

‘You know what is at the heart of misogyny? When it comes down to it?’ ‘So I’m a misogynist now?’ ‘It’s simply about not giving,’ she said.