Walk the Blue Fields
'Pure magic.' Colm Tóibín
$23.46
- Hardcover
208 pages
- Release Date
27 January 2026
Summary
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780571397464 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0571397468 |
| Author: | Claire Keegan |
| Publisher: | Faber & Faber |
| Imprint: | Faber & Faber |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 27 January 2026 |
| Weight: | 302g |
| Dimensions: | 42mm x 205mm x 136mm |
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About The Author
Claire Keegan
Claire Keegan’s works of fiction are critically acclaimed international bestsellers - and have been translated into more than thirty-five languages. Antarctica won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. Walk the Blue Fields won the Edge Hill Prize for the finest collection of stories published in the British Isles. Foster won the Davy Byrnes Award - the world’s richest prize for a short story. Small Things Like These, a New York Times Best Book of the 21st Century, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Rathbones Folio Prize and won the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award. So Late in the Day was published in the New Yorker and shortlisted for the British Book Awards. Keegan was awarded Woman of the Year for Literature in Ireland in 2022, Author of the Year 2023, the Seamus Heaney Award for Arts and Letters 2024 and most recently the Siegfried Lenz Prize.
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