A stunning new edition of Claire Keegan''s multi-award-winning, bestselling novel Small Things Like These.
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CILLIAN MURPHY
A SUNDAY TIMES AND IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER
A TOP 5 IRISH TIMES 100 BEST IRISH BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY
A NEW YORK TIMES 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY
WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE AND THE KERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD
SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE AND THE IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR AT THE DALKEY LITERARY AWARDS
‘Exquisite.’ Damon Galgut
‘Masterly.’ The Times
‘Miraculous.’ Herald
‘Astonishing.’ Colm Tóibín
‘Stunning.’ Sunday Independent
‘Absolutely beautiful.’ Douglas Stuart
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.
Claire Keegan''s book Small Things Like These was a Sunday Times Bestseller w/c 05-11-2022
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Readers love Small Things Like These:
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ''Gripping and very moving and thought-provoking ... brilliantly done, but also softly and slowly. You''ll never regret reading this book, but it will haunt you for ever after.''
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ''I haven’t loved a book for so long. This has changed it. Every word counted. Moral, heartfelt & a beautiful read.''
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ''This is a beautifully written story, both simple and profound. Set at Christmas, it is, in essence, an exploration of the best and the worst of what it is to be human. A stunning achievement.''
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ''A remarkable novel - short, succinct, moving. I read it in one sitting early on a Sunday morning before anybody else was up.''
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ''This book needs to sit and settle with the reader after it’s read. Much lies here within what seems a simple tale. It strikes to the heart.''
CLAIRE KEEGAN was raised on a farm in Ireland. Her stories have won numerous awards and are translated into more than twenty languages. Antarctica won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and was chosen as a Los Angeles Times Book of the Year. Walk the Blue Fields won the Edge Hill Prize for the finest collection of stories published in the British Isles. Foster, after winning the Davy Byrnes Award—then the world’s richest prize for a story—was recently selected by The Times UK as one of the top 50 novels to be published in the 21st century. Her stories have been published in the New Yorker, The Paris Review, Granta, and Best American Stories. Keegan is now holding the Briena Staunton Fellowship at Pembroke College, Cambridge.
A stunning new edition of Claire Keegan''s multi-award-winning, bestselling novel Small Things Like These.
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CILLIAN MURPHY
A SUNDAY TIMES AND IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER
A TOP 5 IRISH TIMES 100 BEST IRISH BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY
A NEW YORK TIMES 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY
WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE AND THE KERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD
SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE AND THE IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR AT THE DALKEY LITERARY AWARDS
‘Exquisite.’ Damon Galgut
‘Masterly.’ The Times
‘Miraculous.’ Herald
‘Astonishing.’ Colm Tóibín
‘Stunning.’ Sunday Independent
‘Absolutely beautiful.’ Douglas Stuart
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.
Claire Keegan''s book Small Things Like These was a Sunday Times Bestseller w/c 05-11-2022
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Readers love Small Things Like These:
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ''Gripping and very moving and thought-provoking ... brilliantly done, but also softly and slowly. You''ll never regret reading this book, but it will haunt you for ever after.''
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ''I haven’t loved a book for so long. This has changed it. Every word counted. Moral, heartfelt & a beautiful read.''
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ''This is a beautifully written story, both simple and profound. Set at Christmas, it is, in essence, an exploration of the best and the worst of what it is to be human. A stunning achievement.''
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ''A remarkable novel - short, succinct, moving. I read it in one sitting early on a Sunday morning before anybody else was up.''
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ''This book needs to sit and settle with the reader after it’s read. Much lies here within what seems a simple tale. It strikes to the heart.''
CLAIRE KEEGAN was raised on a farm in Ireland. Her stories have won numerous awards and are translated into more than twenty languages. Antarctica won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and was chosen as a Los Angeles Times Book of the Year. Walk the Blue Fields won the Edge Hill Prize for the finest collection of stories published in the British Isles. Foster, after winning the Davy Byrnes Award—then the world’s richest prize for a story—was recently selected by The Times UK as one of the top 50 novels to be published in the 21st century. Her stories have been published in the New Yorker, The Paris Review, Granta, and Best American Stories. Keegan is now holding the Briena Staunton Fellowship at Pembroke College, Cambridge.
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