Small things like these /
Claire Keegan.
- London : Faber & Faber, 2021.
- 116 pages ; 20 cm
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.