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Small Things Like These
Claire KeeganClaire Keegan’s tender tale of hope and quiet heroism is both a celebration of compassion and a stern rebuke of the sins committed in the name of religion.
It is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces his busiest season. As he does the rounds, he feels the past rising up to meet him - and encounters the complicit silences of a small community controlled by the Church.
"A single one of Keegan's grounded, powerful sentences can contain volumes of social history. Every word is the right word in the right place, and the effect is resonant and deeply moving." - Hilary Mantel
"A story of quiet bravery, set in an Irish community in denial of its central secret. Beautiful, clear, economic writing and an elegant structure dense with moral themes." - The 2022 Booker Prize Judges
Claire Keegan is a novelist and short story writer, whose work has won numerous awards and been translated into more than 20 languages. Keegan was brought up on a farm in Ireland. At the age of 17, she travelled to New Orleans, where she studied English and Political Science at Loyola University. She returned to Ireland in 1992, and her highly acclaimed first volume of short stories - Antarctica - was published in 1999. A second successful collection of stories - Walk the Blue Fields (2007) - was followed by her first novel, Foster, which won the 2009 Davy Byrnes Irish Writing Award. Foster was named by the Times as one of the top 50 novels to be published in the 21st Century. Keegan is the current holder of the Briena Staunton Visiting Writer Fellowship at Pembroke College, Cambridge.
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