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"Small Things Like These" is a novella set in rural Ireland in the 1980s, which tells the story of a small community grappling with a moral dilemma. The plot centers around Bill Furlong, a local tradesman, who tried to help a young girl whom he feels is imprisoned in a facility run by nuns one winter morning.
- Claire Keegan
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. Early one morning, while delivering ...
Dec 10, 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. Early one morning, while delivering ...
- Claire Keegan
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.
- Claire Keegan
Small Things Like These assures us we are all capable of doing the right thing, and that goodness, like misery, can be handed on from man to man. It is a literary state of grace.”—Herald (UK) “ A masterclass in light-touch, heart-stopping writing… Small Things Like These is gripping and subtly emotionally charged from start to finish ...
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 ...
The landmark new novel from award-winning author Claire Keegan. 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. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which forces him to confront both his ...
