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Small Things Like These

Small Things Like These

Claire Keegan (born 1968)

English editions

Written in English

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Bill Furlong sells coal and timber in a small Irish town, and in the run-up to Christmas 1985 he is busier than at any other time of year. On his rounds his own past keeps returning to him. One early morning a delivery to the convent leads him to a discovery that makes him confront the silences of a town in thrall to the Church, and what speaking up might cost him.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Genres
Historical (assigned by AI)
Set in
Ireland, 1985
First published
2021
Author's age
53 when first published
ISBN

9780802158741 (Grove Press, United States)

9780571368686 (Faber & Faber, United Kingdom)

9780571368709 (Faber & Faber, United Kingdom)

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