Walk the Blue Fields

<p><b>AN <i>IRISH TIMES</i> TOP 100 IRISH BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY</b><br><br><b>‘Exquisite … so intricately wrought, so strange and beguiling as to entirely bewitch.’</b> <i>GUARDIAN</i><br><b>‘Pure magic.’ </b>COLM TÓIBÍN<br><b>‘Lyrical, thoughtful, but with a thick, dark strain of melancholy running through.’ </b><i>INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY</i><br><br>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 long-awaited second collection, Claire Keegan observes an Ireland wrestling with its past.</p>