By Claire Keegan
128 pages
Oct. 3, 2024
"It is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces into his busiest season. As he goes round the houses making deliveries, he feels the past rising up to meet him-and encounters the complicit silences of a people controlled by the Church. " --Page 4 of cover.