TY  - BOOK
AU  - Keegan,Claire
TI  - Small things like these
SN  - 9780571368709
U1  - 823/.914 23
PY  - 2022///
CY  - London
PB  - Faber & Faber Ltd
KW  - Catholic Church
KW  - Ireland
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Families
KW  - Coal
KW  - Unmarried mothers
KW  - Young women
KW  - Workhouses
KW  - Convents
KW  - Merchants
KW  - fast
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - UK & IRL fiction
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
N1  - First published: 2021
N2  - 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
ER  -