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What would life be like, he wondered, if they were given time to think and reflect over things? Might their lives be different or much the same – or would they just lose the run of themselves?
Mar 8, 2023 · Synopsis. It is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces his busiest season. As he does the rounds, he feels the past rising up to meet him - and encounters the complicit silences of a small community controlled by the Church. Addeddate.
Already an international bestseller, Small Things Like These is a deeply affecting story of hope, quiet heroism, and empathy from one of our most critically lauded and iconic writers.
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 of faith and conscience.
Nov 5, 2021 · Set in the days leading up to Christmas 1985 in a small Irish village, Bill Furlong’s existential anxiety for a sense of purpose in a life he feels is stagnating leads him to examine the world around him and, in doing so, realizes there are things he can no longer look away from.
Explore Claire Keegan’s Booker Prize 2022 shortlisted novel Small Things Like These with your book club using our guide and discover why the judges said it ‘explores the silent, self-interested complicity of a whole community’. Download a PDF of the reading guide for your book club. Written by Donna Mackay-Smith.
An international bestseller, Small Things Like These is a deeply affecting story of hope, quiet heroism, and empathy from one of our most critically lauded and iconic writers.
Nov 30, 2021 · An international bestseller, Small Things Like These is a deeply affecting story of hope, quiet heroism, and empathy from one of our most critically lauded and iconic writers.
Small Things Like These. CLAIRE KEEGAN. This story is dedicated to the women and children who suffered time in Ireland’s mother and baby homes and Magdalen laundries. And for Mary McCay, teacher. ‘The Irish Republic is entitled to, and hereby claims, the allegiance of every Irishman and Irishwoman. The Republic guarantees religious and ...
Feb 5, 2024 · Small Things Like These is a touching narrative set in a quaint Irish town in 1985, during the Christmas season. The story revolves around Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and devoted family man, who uncovers a shocking secret at the local convent during a routine delivery.
