“Where does thinking get us?” she said. “All thinking does is bring you down.” She was touching the little pearly buttons on her nightdress, agitated. “If you want to get on in life, there’s things you have to ignore, so you can keep on.”
Small Things Like These is a quiet yet powerful novel about a quiet man who is struggeling to ignore the suffering he witnessed in a Magdalen laundry. Before reading this book, I did not know about this part of Irish history, so I think it is an important contribution.
Even though this book is short (it didn’t even take me an hour to read), it is full of atmosphere. I fell in love with Keegan’s writing! So beautiful.
I would recommend to read Small Things Like These during Christmas time. The next time, I pick this novel up again it will be definitely in December.
