Small Things Like These by Claire KeeganIt 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 does the rounds, he feels the past rising up to meet him and encounters the complicit silences of a people controlled by the Church.

Kitty is a superhero-in-training with feline superpowers

But then again

Taking readers further into the realms of the imagination and beyond

both to review the lesson and for you to see if you understood what the tale was about

who triggers war when he asks the Trojan prince Paris to judge the fairest goddess of them all

both married to Dutchmen and bringing up their kids in Holland

such as the Baba-Yaga

Maas and discover the sweeping romantic fantasy that everyone's talking about for yourself

she learns that bargaining with an immortal is a dangerous game - and that the Prince of Hearts wants far more from her than she pledged

and writing style

will give English readers the opportunity to discover one of the founding texts of the European folkloristic tradition

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