Books for Breakfast
A podcast focussing on fiction and poetry hosted by poets and writers Peter Sirr and Enda Wyley. Also features the Toaster Challenge where guest writers are given the time it takes to make toast to talk about a book that has resonated with them.
Books for Breakfast
40: Claire Keegan on Small Things Like These
'A single one of Keegan's grounded, powerful sentences can contain volumes of social history. Every word is the right word in the right place, and the effect is resonant and deeply moving.'
– Hilary Mantel
'A haunting, hopeful masterpiece'.
– Sinéad Gleeson
'Astonishing ... Claire Keegan makes her moments real – and then makes them matter.'
– Colm Tóibín
'A moral tale that is unsentimental and deeply affecting, because true and right.'
– Andrew O'Hagan
Some of the responses to Claire Keegan's new book. Today on Books for Breakfast, in an extended and wide-ranging interview, Claire talks to us about and reads from Small Things Like These.
Intro/outro music: Colm Mac Con Iomaire, ‘Thou Shalt Not Carry’ from The Hare’s Corner, 2008, with thanks to Colm for permission to use it.
Artwork by Freya Sirr
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