Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
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It is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces into his busiest season. As he does the rounds, he feels the past rising up to meet him - and encounters the complicit silences of a people controlled by the Church.
The long-awaited new work from the author of Foster, Small Things Like These is an unforgettable story of hope, quiet heroism and tenderness.
REVIEWS
"A short, masterful novel . . . Detailed, insightful and written with striking economy of language . . . a timely and powerful book." ― Irish Times
"A sublime, emotive story, the kind you emerge from as if having been away for a very long time: unsure, at first, how to continue with your own life." ― Guardian
"Outstanding . . . Written with barely a word out of place, Keegan's exquisite novel brims with fury at the Irish towns whose silence effectively sanctioned for decades untold abuses at the heart of their communities."― Metro
"A feat of compression, concerned with the nature of goodness and the texture of everyday life . . . [A] snowglobe of a story that fits a whole bustling, striving, yearning world into 114 finely wrought pages." ― Sunday Times
"Breathtaking . . . [a] stunning new work . . . gripping and subtly emotionally charged from start to finish." ― Sunday Independent
"Truly great . . . quietly radical."- Ali Smith ― Guardian
PRODUCT DETAILS
Paperback
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 978-0571368686
Pages: 128
The long-awaited new work from the author of Foster, Small Things Like These is an unforgettable story of hope, quiet heroism and tenderness.
REVIEWS
"A short, masterful novel . . . Detailed, insightful and written with striking economy of language . . . a timely and powerful book." ― Irish Times
"A sublime, emotive story, the kind you emerge from as if having been away for a very long time: unsure, at first, how to continue with your own life." ― Guardian
"Outstanding . . . Written with barely a word out of place, Keegan's exquisite novel brims with fury at the Irish towns whose silence effectively sanctioned for decades untold abuses at the heart of their communities."― Metro
"A feat of compression, concerned with the nature of goodness and the texture of everyday life . . . [A] snowglobe of a story that fits a whole bustling, striving, yearning world into 114 finely wrought pages." ― Sunday Times
"Breathtaking . . . [a] stunning new work . . . gripping and subtly emotionally charged from start to finish." ― Sunday Independent
"Truly great . . . quietly radical."- Ali Smith ― Guardian
PRODUCT DETAILS
Paperback
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 978-0571368686
Pages: 128