December EOY Book Club: Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

📚 LGBC December End of Year Book Club: Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan 🎄✨
📅 Wednesday 17th December
📍 The Morpeth Arms, Pimlico
🕡 6:30pm – 10:00pm

Join us for our final book club of the year as we dive into Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan and celebrate an amazing 2025 together. Expect cosy vibes, great book club chats, games and festive fun all evening!

Small things like these by Claire Keegan is

📚 Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan is:
A beautifully quiet, atmospheric novella set in a small Irish town in the mid-1980s. The story follows Bill Furlong, a hardworking coal merchant and father of five, as he moves through the final weeks before Christmas. During his deliveries, Bill uncovers a disturbing secret connected to the local convent. What he discovers forces him to confront his own past, his community’s silence and the moral cost of looking the other way.

Themes:
✨ Moral courage & doing the right thing
✨ Silence, complicity & societal shame
✨ Compassion, generosity & small acts of bravery
✨ Class, poverty & power dynamics
✨ Family, memory & forgiveness

It’s a tender, powerful read that explores how small choices can create big ripples and how kindness can be an act of quiet rebellion.

*We'd recommend reading the trigger warnings before reading

✨ What’s Included:
🍹 A welcome drink on arrival (soft/ hot or alcoholic)
💬 Guided book discussion questions around Small Things Like These
🎉 End of year quiz + fun games
🏆 Prizes for the winners
🫶🏼 Time to mingle, connect & celebrate the end of the year

🌟 Whether it’s your first meet up or you’re one of our amazing regulars, you’ll feel instantly welcome. Our club is friendly, inclusive and full of warm bookish energy... everyone mixes, chats and gets involved!

📚 Getting the Book:
Find Small Things Like These at your local library, second hand, or from your favourite indie bookshop.

🔒 Ts & Cs (please read):
🕰️ You can resell your ticket up to 2 weeks before the event (3rd December) in our WhatsApp group.
💸 Tickets must be resold at the same price.
🍹 Welcome drink is included in your ticket.
💛 By buying a ticket, you agree to be friendly, kind, respectful, and open... everyone may have different opinions about the book and that’s part of what makes discussion fun!
📸 By attending, you consent to photos/videos being taken.

✨ Come for the book, stay for the friendships and end the year with the cosiest memories. 🎄💛📚

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