"Keegan is measured and merciless as she dissects the silent acquiescence of a 1980s Irish town in the Church's cruel treatment of unmarried mothers - and the cost of one man's moral courage."
So said the Booker Prize judges when shortlisting Claire Keegan's wonderful novel 'Small Things Like These' for this year's prize.
We are honoured to have Claire at this year's Allingham Festival. Though publication of her works are rare events, four in 23 years, each one is a gem. One cannot think of any other writer who can manage the feat of creating a completely imagined, structured and sustained world with the brevity we find in her books. The real life situations she writes about are wonderfully evocative and the reader is captured from the beginning. We are in for a fascinating afternoon.
Sunday 6th November @ 3.15pm €10