Small Things Like These

Claire Keegan

Dec 2021 · Highbridge Audio · Narrated by Aidan Kelly

About this audiobook

The landmark new novel from award-winning author Claire Keegan 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. Already an international bestseller, Small Things Like These is a deeply affecting story of hope, quiet heroism, and empathy from one of our most critically lauded and iconic writers.

Ratings and reviews

Quietly proceeding to sacrifice and enlightenment.

About the author

Claire Keegan was raised on a farm in Ireland. Her stories-which have been published in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, Granta, and Best American Stories-have won numerous awards and are translated into more than twenty languages. Keegan currently holds the Briena Staunton Fellowship at Pembroke College, Cambridge.

An award-winning narrator, Aidan Kelly appears regularly in theater and television, most notably at the Abbey Theatre, the national theater of Ireland.