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Small Thinks Like These - Claire Keegan

TT$125.00

General & Literary Fiction Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2022 Winner of the Orwell Prize and the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award An exquisite winter tale of courage - and its cost, set in Catholic Ireland. Paperback 128 pages Faber and Faber

It is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces into his busiest season. As he does the rounds, he feels the past rising up to meet him - and encounters the complicit silences of a people controlled by the Church.