Small Things Like These

Longlisted for The 2022 Booker Prize.

Small Things Like These is a short but powerful novella set in Ireland in 1985. It’s Christmas time. All people in town are aware of suspicious business in a convent nearby, but no one wants to deal with it. Bill Furlong has to decide: to do the right thing (and possibly get in trouble) or stay quiet like the rest of the town.

I enjoyed the beautiful reflective writing and the story, which gives us a glimpse into the everyday life, thoughts, and memories of Bill Furlong, an average resident of a small town.

 

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Details:

• author: Claire Keegan
  
• full title: Small Things Like These
  
• genre: literary fiction
• format/type: bookfiction
• country: Ireland
  
• topics:
  
• publisher: Grove Press
  
• publish date: 30.11.2021
  
• pages: 118
  

My Rating of the Book:

• content: 💙💙💙💙

Excerpt from the Book:

About the Author:

Claire Keegan was born in Wexford in 1968.
Her story collections are Antarctica (London, Faber and Faber, 1999/New York, Grove/Atlantic, 1999); Walk the Blue Fields (Faber and Faber, 2007/ Grove Press, Black Cat, 2008); and the single story Foster (Faber and Faber, 2010).
Her awards include The Francis MacManus Award; The William Trevor Prize; the Olive Cook Award; the Los Angeles Times Book of the Year; the Rooney Prize for Literature, and Davy Byrnes Irish Writing Award 2009, judged by Richard Ford.
A member of Aosdána, she lives in Co. Wexford.