Small things like these - Outside of a Dog

English language

Published Jan. 1, 2021 by Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic.

ISBN:: 9780802158758
OCLC Number:: 1285964508

(1 review)

"It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church." --

6 editions

emma reviewed Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

Gentle and reflective

5 stars

There's a very old Jewish teaching which says "whoever saves a life, saves an entire world." This gentle and reflective novella, in which nothing much happens and yet lives change, is a version of this, told through the details of the quiet life of a man in an Irish village.

Subjects

Fiction
History
Merchants
Unmarried mothers
FICTION / Small Town & Rural
FICTION / Holidays
FICTION / Family Life / General
Catholic Church

Places

Ireland