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Small Things Like These
Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize
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“Claire Keegan works magic in this small novel about a truly good man in 1985 Ireland, and the difficult decision he faces at Christmastime. Keegan captures the extraordinary courage required to live an ordinary life with honor.”
John Lynn,
The Kennett Bookhouse
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“What a gem. If fiction is a way to re write history, giving voice to the voiceless and overlooked, Clare Keegan has succeeded in telling of the a story of what can and did happen in a small Irish town. Set during the weeks leading up to Christmas, Small Things Like These is at once devastating and hopeful in its keen insight of the human heart as it can swell with joy, or chill with cruelty, This will be a book I sell perennially as the holidays come around in particular, and all through the year. We all need reminders what it feels like to listen to our loving instincts and do the right thing when it might be easier to turn away and get on with things. This is a lovely meditation on life and what happens when we if we don’t listen to our better angels. ”
Sarah,
Watermark Books
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THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FOSTER, ANTARCTICA AND WALK THE BLUE FIELDS
'This is a tale of courage and compassion, of good sons and vulnerable young mothers. Absolutely beautiful.'
-Douglas Stuart (Winner of the Booker Prize 2020)
'Marvellous-exact and icy and loving all at once.' -Sarah Moss
'A haunting, hopeful masterpiece.' -Sinéad Gleeson
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.
'[Claire Keegan] creates luminous effects with spare material, so every line seems to be a lesson in the perfect deployment of both style and emotion.'
Hilary Mantel
Claire Keegan was born in 1968 and grew up on a farm in Wicklow. Her first collection of short stories, Antarctica, was completed in 1998. It announced her as an exceptionally gifted and versatile writer of contemporary fiction and was awarded the Rooney Prize for Literature. Her second short story collection, Walk the Blue Fields, was published to enormous critical acclaim in 2007 and won her the 2008 Edge Hill Prize for Short Stories. Claire Keegan lives in County Wexford, Ireland.