About the book: Claire Keegan’s tender tale of hope and quiet heroism is both a celebration of compassion and a stern rebuke of the sins committed in the name of religion.
It is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces his busiest season. As he does the rounds, he feels the past rising up to meet him - and encounters the complicit silences of a small community controlled by the Church.
Small Things Like These (2021) was longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize, announced on July 26, 2022. The story is dedicated to the women and children who suffered time in Ireland's mother and baby homes and Magdalen laundries.
Small Things Like These is an upcoming historical drama film directed by Tim Mielants and written by Enda Walsh based on the 2021 novel of the same name by Claire Keegan, starring Cillian Murphy, who also serves as a producer, Ciaran Hinds and Emily Watson.
About the author: Claire Keegan, novelist and short story writer, was brought up on a farm in Ireland. At the age of 17, she travelled to New Orleans, where she studied English and Political Science at Loyola University. She returned to Ireland in 1992, and her highly acclaimed first volume of short stories - Antarctica - was published in 1999.
Her stories are translated into 30 languages and have won numerous accolades. Antarctica won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. Walk the Blue Fields won the Edge Hill Prize, awarded to the finest collection of stories published in the British Isles. Foster won the Davy Byrnes Award and was last year chosen by The Times as one of the top 50 works of fiction to be published in the 21st century. Small Things Like These was shortlisted for the 2022 Rathbones Folio Prize. It won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2022. Her works have been translated into 30 languages.
Rating: 5/5
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