We have been reading ‘Small Things Like These’ by Claire Keegan (2021), a novella shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize. It is set in a small Irish town in the run-up to Christmas 1985, and is about the moral dilemma of Bill Furlong, a coal merchant. He is married with five daughters who are doing well and give him much joy and pride. He is the illegitimate son of a 16 year- old housemaid who was protected by her well-to-do Protestant employer who also acted as a patron to Bill. He is aware of his good fortune and tries to emulate her kindness to him by acts of kindness to others. Continue reading “Hadlow Down Book Club Review – December.”
Horticultural Society AGM Notice
TN22 Club Race Night
Merry Christmas From Admin
New Years Day at the New Inn
Shame that the Ashdown Morris Men can’t make it this year but the beer and the company will be as good a ever!
St. Mark’s Christmas Services
Hadlow Down Village Magazine December 2023
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Line Dancing in Village Hall
Flint and Fern Kindergarten in Wilderness Wood
St. Mark’s School Open Morning
