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Yes, Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan is a clean book.
See how we rate books1985, a small Irish town in the weeks before Christmas — Bill Furlong, a coal merchant, makes a discovery at the convent gates that he can't let himself walk past. Claire Keegan writes with extraordinary restraint: barely a hundred pages, and every one earns its quiet act of courage. Booker-shortlisted, and luminous.
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