Small Things like These - Wikipedia
WEBSmall Things like These is a historical fiction novel by Claire Keegan, published on 30 November 2021 by Grove Press. In 2022, the book won the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, [1] and was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize [2] and the Booker Prize. [3] It was adapted into a film of the same name starring Cillian Murphy, released in 2024.
Small Things Like These Summary and Study Guide
WEBSmall Things Like These (2021) is Irish writer Claire Keegan’s fourth work of fiction. It was shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize and won the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year.
Book review: Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan : NPR
WEBDec 22, 2021 · In Claire Keegan's feminist take on Dickens, a boy born to an unwed teen builds a life as a coal merchant, husband, and father to five daughters, and faces crises of faith and...
Small Things Like These - Harvard Review
WEBJun 28, 2022 · When he sees a small boy foraging for sticks along the road, he offers him a ride and the change in his pocket, knowing that the boy’s father is an alcoholic. Furlong sees his own potential fate in the lives of the less fortunate and is kept up at night ruminating “over small things like these”—the random-seeming moments that separate ...
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan | Goodreads
WEBNov 5, 2021 · During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church.
Reading Guide: Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
WEBExplore Claire Keegan’s Booker Prize 2022 shortlisted novel Small Things Like These with your book club using our guide and discover why the judges said it ‘explores the silent, self-interested complicity of a whole community’.
SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE - Kirkus Reviews
WEBNov 30, 2021 · Hannah’s new novel is an homage to the extraordinary courage and endurance of Frenchwomen during World War II. In 1995, an elderly unnamed widow is moving into an Oregon nursing home on the urging of her controlling son, Julien, a surgeon.
Small Things Like These - The Booker Prizes
WEBDec 14, 2021 · Explore Claire Keegan’s Booker Prize 2022 shortlisted novel Small Things Like These with your book club using our guide and discover why the judges said it ‘explores the silent, self-interested complicity of a whole community’.
Small Things Like These - Book Marks
WEBSmall Things Like These is a timely and powerful book that asks a deceptively simple question: 'Why were the things that were closest so often the hardest to see?' Read Full Review >> Rave BETHANNE PATRICK, The Los Angeles Times
Small Things Like These - Book Marks
WEBNov 30, 2021 · Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan has an overall rating of Rave based on 21 book reviews.