Walk the Blue Fields by Claire Keegan

AN IRISH TIMES TOP 100 IRISH BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY

'Exquisite . so intricately wrought, so strange and beguiling as to entirely bewitch.' GUARDIAN

'Pure magic.' COLM TÓIBÍN

'Lyrical, thoughtful, but with a thick, dark strain of melancholy running through.' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

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.

Format:Hardback 208 pages
Publisher:Faber & Faber
Imprint:Faber & Faber
Edition:Main - Re-issue
ISBN:9780571397464
Published:9 Oct 2025
Classifications:Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Short stories
Weight:304g
Dimensions:204 x 137 x 20 (mm)