I just read Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan. It’s a long, long time since I’ve read such a good book. It has a simple grace and beauty about it that’s bewitching, haunting. It’s about a difficult subject but it’s powerfully uplifting. And it’s so easy to read and such a page-turner. This book will be read and remembered for a long time.
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First read of the year. What an atmosphere she creates. Hardly slept running it over last night. Small and enormous at the same time. #smallthingslikethese

“The weather had turned dry and colder, and people remarked on what a picture the convent made, how like a Christmas card it almost was with the yews and evergreens dusted in frost and how the birds, for some reason, had not touched a single berry on the holly bushes there.” No better time to read (or reread) this small masterpiece. #ClaireKeegan #SmallThingsLikeThese #Christmas #rereading

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Olivia loved Sosuke Natsukawa's The Cat Who Saved Books (trans Louise Heal Kawai, published Picador, & Claire Keegan 's Small Things Like These, published by Faber

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Beautiful and quietly compelling - Claire Keegan's novel Small Things Like These is set in Ireland 1985.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/oct/22/small-things-like-these-by-claire-keegan-between-happiness-and-ruin

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