Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan - Goodreads
WEBNov 5, 2021 · 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 lauded and iconic writers.
Small Things Like These - Harvard Review
WEBJun 28, 2022 · At just over one hundred pages, Irish writer Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These is a deceptively slim volume. On the one hand, it has the scathing social and religious indictment of a longer novel; on the other, it is a quiet and morose character study, a novella that delves into one man’s psychology and moral fiber.
Small Things like These - Wikipedia
WEBSmall Things like These is a historical fiction novel by Claire Keegan, published on 30 November 2021 by Grove Press. In 2022, the book won the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, [1] and was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize [2] and the Booker Prize. [3] It was adapted into a film of the same name starring Cillian Murphy, released in 2024.
Book review: Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan : NPR
WEBDec 22, 2021 · 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.
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WEBDec 14, 2021 · 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.
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Small Things Like These: Claire Keegan: Amazon.com: Books
WEBJan 1, 2022 · Mass Market Paperback – January 1, 2022. 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 family. Book recommendations, author interviews, editors' picks, and more. Read it now.
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Small things like these: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2022
WEBOct 21, 2022 · “Small Things Like These” by Irish writer Claire Keegan tells William Furlong’s story. The short novel, simply beautifully told, is a small window on what was then hidden but is now known as the national Irish scandal involving unwed mothers and the selling of their babies for decades.
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SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE - Kirkus Reviews
WEBNov 30, 2021 · Hannah’s new novel is an homage to the extraordinary courage and endurance of Frenchwomen during World War II. In 1995, an elderly unnamed widow is moving into an Oregon nursing home on the urging of her controlling son, Julien, a surgeon.
Small Things Like These - The Booker Prizes
WEBDec 14, 2021 · 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’.
Small Things Like These a book by Claire Keegan - Bookshop
WEBSmall 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 family. 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.