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.