Small Things Like These

A Book of the Year in The Times - The New Statesman - Observer - Financial Times - Irish Times - Irish Independent - Times Literary Supplement

One of the New York Times' '100 Best Books of the 21st Century'


WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE AND THE KERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD

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.

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CILLIAN MURPHY

Format/pages: paperback / 116 pages

ISBN: 9780571368709

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Year: 2022