“Small Things Like These is not just about Ireland, it’s about the world, and it asks profound questions about complicity, about the hope and difficulty of change, and the complex nature of restitution… A single one of Keegan’s grounded, powerful sentences can contain volumes of social history. From winter skies to the tiniest tick of speech to the baking of a Christmas cake, Claire Keegan makes her moments real-and then she makes them matter.” -Colm Tóibín, author of The Magician This is the story of what happened in Ireland, told with sympathy and emotional accuracy. “In Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan creates scenes with astonishing clarity and lucidity. Claire Keegan’s sentences make my heart pound and my knees buckle and I will always read everything she writes.” -Lily King “Small Things Like These is a hypnotic and electrifying Irish tale that transcends country, transcends time. This unforgettable novel is a literary masterpiece and Claire Keegan is one of the world’s greatest living writers.” -Simon van Booy “A story that reached so deep I felt the characters moving around inside me.
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