Small things like these /
Claire Keegan.
- 1st Grove Atlantic hardcover ed.
- New York : Grove Press, 2021.
- 118 p. ; 20 cm.
"First published in the United Kingdom in 2021 by Faber & Faber Limited"--Publisher.
"It is 1985 in a small Irish town. 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."--Publisher.
9780571638709 (pbk.) 9780802158741
2021041409
Catholic Church--Fiction.
Unmarried mothers--Fiction. Merchants--Fiction. Workhouses--Fiction. Convents--Fiction. Reformatories for women--Fiction. Girls--Institutional care--Fiction.