Waterstones Fiction Book of the Month for November 2022
Shortlisted for The Booker Prize 2022
Winnerof the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2022
Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2022
The new novel from the internationally bestselling author of Foster,Antarctica and Walk the Blue Fields.
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.
The long-awaited new work from the author of Foster,Small Things Like These is an unforgettable story of hope,quiet heroism and tenderness.
Publisher: Faber & FaberISBN: 9780571368709Number of pages: 128Weight: 149 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 9 mmEdition: Main
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'A haunting,hopeful masterpiece.'- Sinead Gleeson
'A moral tale that is unsentimental and deeply affecting,because true and right.'- David Hayden
'A single one of Keegan's grounded,powerful sentences can contain volumes of social history. Every word is the right word in the right place,and the effect is resonant and deeply moving.'- Hilary Mantel
'This is a tale of courage and compassion,of good sons and vulnerable young mothers. Absolutely beautiful.'- Douglas Stuart
'Astonishing. Claire Keegan makes her moments real - and then she makes them matter.'- Colm Tóibín
'A true gift of a book. a sublime Chekhovian shock.'- Andrew O'Hagan
'Marvellous-exact and icy and loving all at once.'- Sarah Moss
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