Author: Orlaine McDonald
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Paperback
Burley Fisher Books of the Year 2025
Cat says… Out in paperback this year, No Small Thing is a very moving debut. Three generations of women end up living in the same flat. This is more out of desperation than choice, when Mickey and her young daughter, Summer, have to move in with Mickey’s mother, Livia, whom they have long been estranged from. They live together for a year and from the beginning we know their time together will end in tragedy. How that unfolds is played out through the eyes of each of the characters from Livia’s long dead Mother and also from Earl, the man who lives above them, benevolently observing them as he waters his plants and looks after his cat.