Walk The Blue Fields

In Her Second Short Story Collection, Claire Keegan Observes An Ireland Wrestling With Its Past. 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. A Harvard Student Flies South To Celebrate His Birthday At His Step-father's Condominium By The Sea. While The Scent Of Hay Drifts Up From Neighbouring Fields, A Teenage Immigrant Articulates The Reason For Her Going. 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. Parting Gift -- Walk The Blue Fields -- Dark Horses -- Forester's Daughter -- Close To The Water's Edge -- Surrender -- Night Of The Quicken Trees. Claire Keegan.