Bookwarm: “Small Things Like These” by Claire Keegan

A book to make us warm when the sun retreats? We got you covered with “Small Things Like These” by Claire Keegan**

Christmas 1985, small-town Ireland. Bill Furlong, coal merchant, father of five, notices something amiss at the local convent. As he does the rounds, he feels the past rising up to meet him - and encounters the complicit silences of a small community controlled by the Church. This small-scale drama invites a blanket for a single evening