Claire Keegan is an award winning writer with a resume that makes me want to stop writing. But the book makes me want to write simply because it is concise at 109 pages and I think i can manage a few stories like that.
It is set in 1985. Furlong a coal and log shop owner who grows up without a father, somehow makes a decent living and has a family with five daughters. He is very empathetic to others and especially children who have troubles and finds himself uncovering a scandal in the local nunnery and the church - young girls being used for some weird purposes. He uncovers a young girl who wants to run away from the laundry in the nunnery and turns out she has a child and is separated from the child. The nuns act like everything is normal. Furlong does no heroics except take the girl home but the Magdalen Laundries as they were known later did become a scandal - meant to house and provide for fallen women who then become easy preys for people in the church to abuse.
Leaves an imprint. I'll never forget the story.
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