Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan Alex Howard Eleven year-old Tilly has lived

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Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan Alex Howard Eleven year-old Tilly has livedIt 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.