Small Things Like These (2023)

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Already an international bestseller, Small Things Like These is a deeply affecting story of hope, quiet heroism, and empathy from one of our most critically ...
It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks lead…

Dec 22, 2021 · Bill Furlong, Claire Keegan's unforgettable protagonist in Small Things Like These, makes his giant leap from a series of measured steps.
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.

Oct 22, 2021 · In this tender novel by the renowned short-story writer, a father confronts the truth of one of Ireland's infamous Magdalene laundries.
In this tender novel by the renowned short-story writer, a father confronts the truth of one of Ireland’s infamous Magdalene laundries

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 ...
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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’.

Nov 30, 2021 · Claire Keegan's “Small Things Like These” uncovers the Catholic Church's centuries-long conspiracy to imprison, abuse and even murder ...
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.

Dec 22, 2022 · Small Things Like These is a powerful historical fiction centred on the character of Bill Furlong. He works as a coal and timber delivery man ...
Keegan is an Irish author who grew up in Ireland but she has also lived in the United States, Wales, and is now back in Ireland. Her writing, like all Irish writing seems to have to beauty and soft…

Already an international bestseller, Small Things Like These is a deeply affecting story of hope, quiet heroism, and empathy from one of our most critically ...
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...

Keegan, published by Grove Atlantic/ Grove Press, is a story, set in the 1970ties in smalltown Ireland and deals with Magdalenen laundry theme. Bill Furlong is ...
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 & LoversSmall Things Like...

Oct 4, 2022 · The plot follows Bill Furlong, a New Ross family man and merchant who is troubled as he becomes aware of what occurs in the local Magdalen ...
When she was a teenager, Joan Didion studied the opening to Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, a paragraph of “four deceptively simple sentences, 126 words, the arrangement of which remains as mysterious and thrilling to me now as it did when I first read them.” A young writer today could study with similar pleasure the opening paragraph of Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These…

SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE ... A stunning feat of storytelling and moral clarity. ... An Irishman uncovers abuse at a Magdalen laundry in this compact and gripping ...
An Irishman uncovers abuse at a Magdalen laundry in this compact and gripping novel.

Sep 8, 2022 · This year Claire Keegan, long esteemed, became fêted. Small Things like These has just won the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and been ...
Like all Claire Keegan’s books, it slips down easily, weaving a character’s idiom – ‘he could not say which he...

Already an international bestseller, Small Things Like These is a deeply affecting story of hope, quiet heroism, and empathy from one of our most critically ...
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