Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

The Irish Times #1 Best Book of the 21st Century
Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize
One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

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.

Already an international bestseller, Small Things Like These is a deeply affecting story of hope, quiet heroism, and empathy from one of our most critically lauded and iconic writers.