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Small Things like These is a historical fiction novel by Claire Keegan, published on 30 November 2021 by Grove Press. In 2022, the book won the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize and the Booker Prize.
Nov 5, 2021 · This idea is at the heart of Claire Keegan’s astonishing Small Things Like These, a novella now shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize where the actions of a singular man might become the first baby steps in undoing a system of abuse and oppression in his society.
Cillian Murphy's outstanding acting anchors Small Things Like These, elevating an occasionally enervating historical drama. Read Critics Reviews
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Feb 15, 2024 · Small Things Like These: Directed by Tim Mielants. With Cillian Murphy, Michelle Fairley, Ciarán Hinds, Clare Dunne. In 1985 devoted father Bill Furlong discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local convent and uncovers shocking truths of his own.
Small Things Like These (2021) is Irish writer Claire Keegan’s fourth work of fiction. It was shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize and won the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year.
Dec 22, 2021 · In Claire Keegan's feminist take on Dickens, a boy born to an unwed teen builds a life as a coal merchant, husband, and father to five daughters, and faces crises...
Jun 28, 2022 · At just over one hundred pages, Irish writer Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These is a deceptively slim volume. On the one hand, it has the scathing social and religious indictment of a longer novel; on the other, it is a quiet and morose character study, a novella that delves into one man’s psychology and moral fiber.
Nov 30, 2021 · Small Things Like These is award-winning author Claire Keegan's landmark new novel, a tale of one man's courage and a remarkable portrait of love and family. It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season.
Oct 28, 2022 · “Small Things Like These” by Irish writer Claire Keegan tells William Furlong’s story. The short novel, simply beautifully told, is a small window on what was then hidden but is now known as the national Irish scandal involving unwed mothers and the selling of their babies for decades.
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Nov 30, 2021 · Hannah’s new novel is an homage to the extraordinary courage and endurance of Frenchwomen during World War II. In 1995, an elderly unnamed widow is moving into an Oregon nursing home on the urging of her controlling son, Julien, a surgeon.
