Small Things Like These
CBC Books | | Posted: April 21, 2022 8:14 PM | Last Updated: July 15, 2022
Claire Keegan
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. (From Grove Atlantic)
- Claire Keegan's Small Things Like These is a story of moral crisis, heroism and the human heart
- Small Things Like These wins 2022 Orwell Prize for political fiction
Claire Keegan is an Irish writer known for her award-winning short stories. 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.