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Keegan, Claire.

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.


Ireland--History--20th century--Fiction.