Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan is a Christmas story set in Ireland, in the 1990's. The story revolves around Bill Furlong. The reader learns about his upbringing, which made him the good man he is revealed to be, in the end.
He owns a business delivering fuel. In the process of his work, he delivers to a convent, which concerns him. This convent takes in unwed mothers and by the look of the mothers, they aren't treated very well. This is the story of the Magdalene Laundries.
Bill finds a girl hiding and brings her home with him. That's the end of the story. It is fiction but I would have liked to know how Bill's family accepted the girl. What became of her?
