Author(s): Claire Keegan

Contemporary

Walk the Blue Fields by Claire Keegan is the critically acclaimed second collection from the Booker-shortlisted author of Small Things Like These.

A long-haired woman moves into the priest's house and sets fire to his furniture.
That Christmas, the electricity goes out.
A forester mortgages his land and goes off to a seaside town looking for a wife. He finds a woman eating alone in the hotel.
A farmer wakes half-naked and realises the money is almost gone.
And in the title story, a priest waits on the altar for a bride and battles, all that wedding day, with his memories of a love affair.

In her second collection, Claire Keegan observes an Ireland wrestling with its past.