Small Things Like These

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2022

Claire Keegan

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Faber & Faber
17 October 2022

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Historical fiction

ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- With her beguiling prose, Keegan's novel reads somewhat like a fable and has been on bestseller lists for a long time. Set in a small Irish town in the 80's, the story centres on family and township life as a darker truth emerges. Craig

'Exquisite.' Damon Galgut

'Masterly.' The Times

'Miraculous.' Herald

'Astonishing.' Colm Toibin

'Stunning.' Sunday Independent

'Absolutely beautiful.' Douglas Stuart

A Book of the Year in The Times and The New Statesman

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.

'A genuine once-in-a-generation writer.' The Times

'[A] snowglobe of a story that fits a whole bustling, striving, yearning world into 114 finely wrought pages.' Sunday Times

'Powerful and affecting and very timely . . . deeply moving.' Hilary Mantel

'Stunning . . . A haunting, hopeful masterpiece.' Sinead Gleeson

'Remarkable . . . Truly exquisite.' Daily Telegraph

'A restrained and intensely moral book, full of hope and love.' Observer

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

By: Claire Keegan
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Main
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 9mm
Weight: 149g
ISBN: 9780571368709
ISBN 10: 0571368700
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 17 October 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Claire Keegan was brought up on a farm in Ireland. Her stories have won numerous awards and are translated into more than 20 languages. Foster was named by The Times as one of the top 50 novels to be published in the 21st Century. Keegan is now holding the Briena Staunton Fellowship at Pembroke College, Cambridge.