Limit search to available items
Book Cover
Book
Author Keegan, Claire, author

Title Small things like these / Claire Keegan
Published London : Faber & Faber, 2021
©2021

Copies

Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 W'BOOL READNK  ReadNK KEE  AVAILABLE
 MELB  820.914 K2625 A6/S  AVAILABLE
Description 116 pages ; 20 cm
Summary 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
Notes Shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction, 2022
Subject Young women -- Ireland -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Fiction
Workhouses -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
Merchants -- Fiction
Coal -- Fiction
Families -- Fiction
Convents -- Fiction
SUBJECT Ireland -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
Subject Ireland.
Genre/Form Psychological fiction.
Historical fiction.
Fiction.
History.
Historical fiction.
ISBN 9780571368686
9780571368693