Small Things Like These
by Claire Keegan · 2021
Literary Fiction · ranked #166 in category
In the weeks before Christmas 1985, coal merchant Bill Furlong makes a delivery to the local convent in a small Irish town and discovers something that forces him to choose between his community's complicit silence and his own conscience. Keegan's miniature masterpiece about the Magdalene laundries is one of the shortest novels ever shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
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