Hay Festival November Book Club – Small Things Like These

Join award-winning writer Claire Keegan as she revisits her acclaimed novel, Small Things Like These, one of the New York Times Best Book of the 21st Century.

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.

She talks to novelist Rebecca Watson, author of Little Scratch and I Will Crash.

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