Small things like these /
Keegan, Claire,
Small things like these / Keegan, Claire. - Paperback edition. - London : Faber & Faber Ltd, 2022. - 116 pages ; 20 cm.
First published: 2021.
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.
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Catholic Church--Ireland--Fiction.
1900-1999
Families--Fiction.
Coal--Fiction.
Unmarried mothers--Ireland--Fiction.
Young women--Ireland--Fiction.
Workhouses--Ireland--Fiction.
Convents--Fiction.
Merchants--Fiction.
Ireland.
Ireland--History--20th century--Fiction.
UK & IRL fiction UK & IRL fiction
Fiction.
History.
Historical fiction.
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Small things like these / Keegan, Claire. - Paperback edition. - London : Faber & Faber Ltd, 2022. - 116 pages ; 20 cm.
First published: 2021.
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.
9780571368709 9780571368686 0571368689 0571368700
jb2022037540
Catholic Church--Ireland--Fiction.
1900-1999
Families--Fiction.
Coal--Fiction.
Unmarried mothers--Ireland--Fiction.
Young women--Ireland--Fiction.
Workhouses--Ireland--Fiction.
Convents--Fiction.
Merchants--Fiction.
Ireland.
Ireland--History--20th century--Fiction.
UK & IRL fiction UK & IRL fiction
Fiction.
History.
Historical fiction.
823/.914