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Small things like these / Claire Keegan.

Keegan, Claire, (author.).

Summary:

"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 a town controlled by the church. Already a bestseller in France and certain to be read worldwide for generations to come, Small Things Like These is a deeply affecting story of hope, quiet heroism, and empathy from one of our most critically lauded and iconic writers"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780802158741 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 118 pages ; 20 cm
  • Edition: First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Grove Press, 2021.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"First published in the United Kingdom in 2021 by Faber & Faber Limited."--Title page verso.
Subject: Catholic Church > Ireland > Fiction.
Convents > Ireland > Fiction.
Families > Fiction.
Girls > Institutional care > Ireland > Fiction.
Merchants > Fiction.
Reformatories for women > Ireland > Fiction.
Small cities > Fiction.
Unmarried mothers > Fiction.
Workhouses > Ireland > Fiction.
Ireland > History > 20th century > Fiction.
Genre: Historical fiction.
Christmas fiction.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Claire Keegan's works of fiction are internationally acclaimed and have been translated into thirty languages. Antarctica won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. Walk the Blue Fields won the Edge Hill Prize for the finest collection of stories published in the British Isles. Foster won the Davy Byrnes Award — the world’s richest prize for a short story. Small Things Like These was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Rathbones Folio Prize. It won the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and The Kerry Prize for Irish Novel of the Year. She was awarded Woman of the Year for Literature in Ireland, 2022, and Author of the Year, 2023. 


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