Review of "Small Things Like These" by Claire Keegan

Wow, a small book but a very powerful one. Told in close third person with a central character who is a small town coal merchant, who stumbles into the abuse that is going on at the local convent as part of the Magdalen laundries story. 

It's really well told, not long on horrible graphic details, and more focused on the way in which everyone in a small town can choose not to see what is happening around them. And it's the small details, picked out with a sharp eye by Claire Keegan, that bring this to life.

I know it's not at all the same, but it made me think about the people who turned a blind eye to the Holocaust as it unfolded around them.