Keegan, Claire
Small things like these - London Faber & Faber 2021 - 118 p.
"From the author of Walk the Blue Fields"--Dust jacket.
"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. Already a bestseller in France and certain to be read worldwide for generations to come, 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"--
9780571368709
2021041409
Ireland
Merchants
Unmarried mothers
Catholic Church
823.914 / KEE/S
Small things like these - London Faber & Faber 2021 - 118 p.
"From the author of Walk the Blue Fields"--Dust jacket.
"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. Already a bestseller in France and certain to be read worldwide for generations to come, 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"--
9780571368709
2021041409
Ireland
Merchants
Unmarried mothers
Catholic Church
823.914 / KEE/S