Small Things Like These

by Claire Keegan

Three stories about relationships, each one raw and understated, yet with a huge amount to say. Keegan’s writing is unique and masterful. Her language is simple, and to call it sparse an understatement, yet she evokes worlds, realities and psyches without the reader noticing how. There is something frighteningly honest about her characters and the situations she puts them in. But for me, Keegan’s greatest achievement is seeming to write without judgement and still lead us to conclusions which support her feminist views of the disgraceful way (many) men (and the world) treat women.