About the author
Claire Keegan is an Irish writer known for short fiction and novellas whose compressed forms give unusual weight to gesture, work, silence, and the moral meaning of ordinary decisions. Her prose is spare without making the lives it describes simple.
Foster follows a child temporarily sent to another household. Small Things Like These places a coal merchant beside the hidden system of a Magdalene laundry, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize before its film adaptation.
Where to start
Start with Small Things Like These for a winter moral drama, then read Foster for another compact work in which care is revealed through daily actions.
