<span class="a-text-bold">** A Book of the Year in </span><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic">The Times</span><span class="a-text-bold"> - </span><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic">The New Statesman - Observer</span><span class="a-text-bold"> - </span><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic">Financial Times</span><span class="a-text-bold"> - </span><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic">Irish Times</span><span class="a-text-bold"> - </span><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic">Irish Independent</span><span class="a-text-bold"> - </span><span class="a-text-bold a-text-italic">Times Literary Supplement **</span><span><br></span><span><br></span><span class="a-text-italic">SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CILLIAN MURPHY </span><span><br><br>WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE AND THE KERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD<br><br>SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE AND THE IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR AT THE DALKEY LITERARY AWARDS<br><br></span><span class="a-text-bold">'Exquisite.' Damon Galgut</span><span><br><br></span><span class="a-text-bold">'Masterly.' </span><span class="a-text-italic">The Times</span><span><br><br></span><span class="a-text-bold">'Miraculous.' </span><span class="a-text-italic">Herald</span><span><br><br></span><span class="a-text-bold">'Astonishing.' Colm Tóibín</span><span><br><br></span><span class="a-text-bold">'Stunning.' </span><span class="a-text-italic">Sunday Independent</span><span><br><br></span><span class="a-text-bold">'Absolutely beautiful.' Douglas Stuart</span><span><br><br>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.</span>
<div class="a-row a-expander-container a-expander-extend-container"> <h3><span>Review</span></h3> <div class="a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small"> <span>A genuine one-in-a-generation writer. ― </span><span class="a-text-italic">The Times</span><span><br><br>[A] snowglobe of a story that fits a whole bustling, striving, yearning world into 114 finely wrought pages. ― </span><span class="a-text-italic">Sunday Times</span><span><br><br>Powerful and affecting and very timely . . . deeply moving. -- Hilary Mantel<br><br>Truly great . . . quietly radical -- Ali Smith ― </span><span class="a-text-italic">Guardian</span><span><br><br>Stunning . . . A haunting, hopeful masterpiece. -- Sinéad Gleeson<br><br>Remarkable . . . Truly exquisite. ― </span><span class="a-text-italic">Daily Telegraph</span><span><br><br>A restrained and intensely moral book, full of hope and love. ― </span><span class="a-text-italic">Observer</span><span><br><br>Marvellous - exact and icy and loving all at once. -- Sarah Moss<br><br>A classic in the making. ― </span><span class="a-text-italic">Guardian</span> </div> <h3><span>Book Description</span></h3> <div class="a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small"> <span class="a-text-bold">An exquisite winter tale of courage - and its cost, set in Catholic Ireland. </span> </div> <div data-expanded="true" class="a-expander-content a-expander-extend-content a-expander-content-expanded" style="overflow: hidden;"> <h3><span>About the Author</span></h3> <div class="a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small"> <span>Claire Keegan's stories are translated into more than thirty-five languages. </span><span class="a-text-italic">Antarctica </span><span>won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. </span><span class="a-text-italic">Walk the Blue Fields </span><span>won the Edge Hill Prize for the finest collection of stories published in the British Isles. </span><span class="a-text-italic">Foster </span><span>won the Davy Byrnes Award and in 2020 was chosen by </span><span class="a-text-italic">The Times </span><span>as one of the top fifty works of fiction to be published in the twenty-first century. </span><span class="a-text-italic">Small Things Like These</span><span>was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Rathbones Folio Prize, awarded for the best work of literature, regardless of form, to be published in the English language. It won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award, the Ambassadors' Prize and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction.</span> </div> </div> <div class="a-row"> <a data-csa-c-func-deps="aui-da-a-expander-toggle" data-csa-c-type="widget" data-csa-interaction-events="click" aria-expanded="true" role="button" href="javascript:void(0)" data-action="a-expander-toggle" class="a-expander-header a-declarative a-expander-extend-header" data-a-expander-toggle="{"allowLinkDefault":true, "expand_prompt":"Read more", "collapse_prompt":""}" data-csa-c-id="vjewcx-ie0rju-btab78-kxin2h"><i class="a-icon a-icon-extender-collapse"></i><span class="a-expander-prompt"></span></a> </div> </div>
