Literary Fiction

Small Things Like These

by Claire Keegan

Bill Furlong, a coal merchant in small-town Ireland, stumbles upon a troubling secret at the local convent during the Christmas season. Keegan's spare, luminous prose examines conscience, complicity, and the courage required to act when silence is easier. A quiet masterpiece about bearing witness to institutional cruelty.

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