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Small Things Like These

Small Things Like These

Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize

by Claire Keegan
Hardback
Publication Date: 12/04/2022

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** A SUNDAY TIMES AND IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER **

** Chosen as a Spectator, Irish Times and Irish Independent Book of the Year **

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FOSTER, SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE IS AN UNFORGETTABLE STORY OF HOPE, QUIET HEROISM, AND TENDERNESS.

WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION AND THE KERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE AND THE IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR AT THE DALKEY LITERARY AWARDS

'A single one of Keegan's grounded, powerful sentences can contain volumes of social history. Every word is the right word in the right place, and the effect is resonant and deeply moving.' Hilary Mantel (Winner of the Booker Prize 2009 and 2012)

'This is a tale of courage and compassion, of good sons and vulnerable young mothers. Absolutely beautiful.' Douglas Stuart (Winner of the Booker Prize 2020)

'Marvellous-exact and icy and loving all at once.' Sarah Moss

'A haunting, hopeful masterpiece.' Sinéad Gleeson

** A BBC TWO BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK**
**CHOSEN AS A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME**

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.

'Astonishing. Claire Keegan makes her moments real - and then she makes them matter.' Colm Tóibín

'A true gift of a book. a sublime Chekhovian shock.'
Andrew O'Hagan

'A moral tale that is unsentimental and deeply affecting, because true and right.' David Hayden

Claire Keegan's book Small Things Like These was a Sunday Times Bestseller w/c 05-11-2022

ISBN:
9780571368686
9780571368686
Category:
Historical Fiction
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
12-04-2022
Language:
English
Publisher:
Faber & Faber, Limited
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Dimensions (mm):
197.99x129.01x8.99mm
Weight:
0.24kg
Claire Keegan

Claire Keegan's stories are translated into thirty languages. Antarctica won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. Walk the Blue Fields won the Edge Hill Prize, awarded to the best collection of stories published in the British Isles.

Foster won the Davy Byrnes Award, one of the richest literary prizes in the world, and was last year chosen by The Times as one of the top fifty works of fiction to be published in the twenty- first century. Small Things Like These was shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize, and for the Rathbones Folio Prize, awarded for the best work of literature, regardless of form, to be published in the English language, and won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction.

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