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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 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.
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.
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 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.'
Nov 16, 2022 · The long-awaited new work from the author of Foster, Small Things Like These is an unforgettable story of hope, quiet heroism and tenderness. A slim quiet novel that explores the traumatic history of the Magdalen laundries in Ireland but which for me is ultimately a little too quiet and distant from that trauma.
Nov 26, 2021 · Midway through Claire Keegan’s novel “Small Things Like These,” a wife urges her brooding husband to rein in his imagination and leave well enough alone.
Dec 7, 2021 · Review by Ron Charles. December 7, 2021 at 11:50 a.m. EST. Our holiday stories are so cloyingly flavored with sugar plums that Claire Keegan’s Christmas novella tastes especially fresh.
Nov 30, 2021 · Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan has an overall rating of Rave based on 21 book reviews.
