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082 _a823.914 KEE
100 _aKeegan, Claire
245 _aSmall things like these
260 _aLondon
_bFaber
_c2021
300 _a116 p.
520 _aIt is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces his busiest season. As he goes round the houses making deliveries, he feels the past rising up to meet him - and encounters the complicit silences of a small community controlled by the Church.
650 _aIreland
650 _aUnmarried mothers
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