Small Things Like These

Get the Tissues Ready Bill Furlong is living a quiet, unglamorous life in Ireland. He has a happy life with his wife and five daughters. They have enough to eat and aren’t living on credit. The town has known hard times, factories are closing up, and people are being laid off. Mr. Furlong is making e......more

Small but mighty! Quietly understated yet screaming to be heard! I adored this book and can't wait to re-read it and anything else Claire Keegan publishes. So gorgeous.......more

short books are magic. there is no other word for being able to convey so much, make the reader feel so extensively, and say so little, in such a small amount of time. this book in particular is the embodiment of showing not telling, to an almost confusing extent. how am i feeling all this? you will s......more

For the right reader and in the right setting, Claire Keegan's little gem of novel casts quite a spell. I first read this in December, around the holidays, and I was struck by the beautifully told story in little more than 100 pages. Fast forward seven months, and I'm dismayed to report this didn't......more

It was a December of crows. People had never seen the likes of them, gathering in black batches on the outskirts of town then coming in, walking the streets, cocking their heads and perching, impudently, on whatever lookout post that took their fancy, scavenging for what was dead, or diving in mi......more