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Buy two stunning new hardback editions of beloved novels by Claire Keegan: Foster and Small Things Like These. RRP value: £25.98.
Both editions published in November 2024. Bundle offer exclusive to faber.co.uk.
The novels:
Small Things Like These (hardback) is an exquisite winter tale of courage — and its cost, set in Catholic Ireland.
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.
Now a major motion picture starring Cillian Murpy.
Foster (hardback) is a heartbreaking, haunting story of childhood, loss and love.
It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A girl is sent to live with foster parents on a farm, not knowing when she will return home. In the strangers’ house, she finds a warmth and affection she has not known before and slowly begins to blossom in their care. But in a house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers how fragile her idyll is.
Claire Keegan’s works of fiction are critically acclaimed international bestsellers – and have been translated into thirty languages. Antarctica won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. Walk the Blue Fields won the Edge Hill Prize for the finest collection of stories published in the British Isles. Foster won the Davy Byrnes Award – the world’s richest prize for a short…
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