Sharon Horgan reads from 'Small Things Like' These by Claire Keegan | The Booker Prize

Описание: Watch Sharon Horgan read an extract from Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan, shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2022.

The story so far: Bill Furlong is delivering logs and coal to his local convent when he chances upon the violence inflicted on the girls there. Will he join his fellow townspeople in their complicit silence? Or will he risk his own family's welfare in order to come to the rescue?

Directed by Kevin Thomas for Mermade Films

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The Booker Prize is the leading literary award in the English speaking world, and has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for over five decades. Each year, the prize is awarded to what is, in the opinion of the judges, the best novel of the year written in English and published in the UK and Ireland.

Previous winners include The Testaments by Margaret Atwood, Midnight Children by Salman Rushdie, The Promise by Damon Galgut, Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, The Bone People by Keri Hulme and many more.

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