@binw Thank you for starting this discussion. I'm 73-years-old and mostly retired. Since retiring from full-time work I've spent more time reading novels. I like literary fiction.

Any of the short stories or novellas by Claire Keegan. My favorite of hers is "Small Things Like These". I've read that novella many times.

Two of her stories were made into films in which both are true to the novellas. "Small Things Like These" (with Cillian Murphy) and "Foster".