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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...
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Jun 28, 2022 · A novella by Claire Keegan that explores the moral dilemma of a coal merchant in 1985 Ireland, where he discovers a girl in a Magdalen laundry. The review praises the prose, the character study, and the social indictment, but criticizes the plot and the balance of the characters.
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.
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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 5, 2020 · Small Things Like These is a slim novella which appears to be a tiny Christmas story at the outset, but it is a wisely drawn-out bold portrait of human conscience. The book may be just 110 odd pages long, but its impact and scope would put quite a few full-length novels to shame.
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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 · Our holiday stories are so cloyingly flavored with sugar plums that Claire Keegan’s Christmas novella tastes especially fresh. At the opening of “ Small Things Like These,” one immediately ...
