Small Things Like These

Small Things Like These
Presented in September 2022 folder. Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2022. Exquisite.´ Damon Galgut. ´Masterly.´ The Times. ´Astonishing.´ Colm Toibin. ´Absolutely beautiful.´ Douglas Stuart. 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...