Author
Claire Keegan
We've read and reviewed Claire Keegan's literary fiction and historical fiction book Small Things Like These on Book of the Day — scored and written up in full, with a clear verdict on who it's for.
Small Things Like These
by Claire Keegan
Claire Keegan's Small Things Like These is a slim, finely calibrated novel about Bill Furlong, a coal merchant in 1985 Ireland who, while making a delivery to the local convent, discovers a girl the town would rather he didn't see. It's a quiet moral story told in exact, unhurried prose — ideal for readers who love restrained literary fiction that says a lot in few pages.