![]() All of which is to say, it is utterly unmissable. by Claire Keegan 286 Paperback 1668 FREE international delivery Hardcover Audio CD 2729 41.99 FREE delivery May 9 - 10 A Very Irish Christmas: The Greatest Irish Holiday Stories of All Time (Very Christmas, 6) by James Joyce, W.B. ![]() Small Things Like These is another minor miracle from Keegan, a book that is nostalgic, touching, brutal and angry. The monumental power of Claire Keegan is that she can create these cuckoo-clock narratives where every single word seems to be a necessary contribution to the overall mechanism of the novel. As soon as you pick the novel up, it’s all over. It is also a touching Christmas tale, genuinely reminiscent of the festive stories of O Henry and Charles Dickens a novel that has been seeped in sherry and served by the fireside. The novel isn’t just an eloquent attack on these laundries, however. At first blush, Foster brings to mind Kaye Gibbons' searing 1987 debut novel, Ellen Foster, narrated by a plucky disadvantaged 11-year-old girl who is relieved, after much hardship, to land in a. Keegan is clever to funnel the novel’s perspective through Furlong. However, Keegan has never been a writer to waste a word. ![]() Some may be disappointed to discover that Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan’s first novel in more than a decade, is a mere 114 pages long. While Keegan dedicates Small Things Like These to 'the women and children who suffered time in Irelands Magdalen laundries' horrific asylums run by Roman Catholic institutions for most of the. ![]()
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