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Nov 5, 2021 · 158,448 ratings19,137 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. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of ...
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.
Small Things like These is a historical fiction novel by Claire Keegan, published on 30 November 2021 by Grove Press. In 2022, the book won the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize and the Booker Prize.
Oct 22, 2021 · Small Things Like These, Keegan’s latest short novel, shares its properties with the very best of her stories. Plunge pool-like, the narrative implies significant depth below its close,...
Nov 30, 2021 · by Claire Keegan (Author) 4.4 9,827 ratings. See all formats and editions. Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize. "A hypnotic and electrifying Irish tale that transcends country, transcends time." —Lily King, New York Times bestselling author of Writers & Lovers.
Jun 28, 2022 · reviewed by Erik Hage. 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.
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.
