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Claire Keegan - Walk the blue fields

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    randomguy
    Registered Users Posts: 285 ✭✭randomguy


    Read it last year and really really liked it. Something classic and timeless about her style. Was after reading "That they may face the rising sun" and I thought there was a similar voice and style there. Not in a derivative way, in a good way. I think both share a timeless quality (you can't tell when the stories are taking place, whether in the 70s or now).

    Saw her in the Irish Times recently and it reminded me that I want to read those stories again (but I gave the book to my mother, so not going to happen for the moment).

    I think she has another book, and that it got a lot of publicity when it came out, I might go googling...


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    Lizzykins
    Closed Accounts Posts: 637 ✭✭✭Lizzykins


    I got it as a Christmas present and absolutely loved it and I'd usually run a mile from short stories as a rule. I gave it to a couple of other people as presents.


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    OldBloke
    Registered Users Posts: 180 ✭✭OldBloke


    Great book - I saw her do a reading from it last year at the Peacock and she signed my copy of her first book Antartica - which was nice.


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    buck65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,969 ✭✭✭buck65


    Claire was at the Ennis book festival and read from this book (Night of the Quicken Trees).

    She is working on a novel and another short story collection at the moment.


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