Claire Keegan's debut collection of short stories, Antartica is a varied, often challenging, series of reflections on the drama, and violence, of everyday lives: the love affairs which tempt women, and men, to leave their marriages, the cruel...
A small girl is sent to live with foster parents on a farm in rural Ireland, without knowing when she will return home. In the strangers' house, she finds a warmth and affection she has not known before and slowly begins to blossom in their care....
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....