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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.
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 5, 2021 · Small Things Like These. Claire Keegan. 4.18. 171,425 ratings20,629 reviews. 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.
Nov 30, 2021 · Claire Keegan’s “Small Things Like These” uncovers the Catholic Church’s centuries-long conspiracy to imprison, abuse and even murder “fallen women” and their children.
Nov 30, 2021 · An Irishman uncovers abuse at a Magdalen laundry in this compact and gripping novel. As Christmas approaches in the winter of 1985, Bill Furlong finds himself increasingly troubled by a sense of dissatisfaction.
Nov 29, 2021 · In Claire Keegan's slim, powerful 'Small Things Like These,' a man confronts a Magdalene Laundry, one of Ireland's abusive homes for 'fallen women.'
Dec 7, 2021 · Review by Ron Charles. December 7, 2021 at 11:50 a.m. EST. (Julia Terbrock/The Washington Post/iStock) Our holiday stories are so cloyingly flavored with sugar plums that Claire Keegan’s...
