{"product_id":"walk-the-blue-fields","title":"WALK THE BLUE FIELDS","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Formatted\"\u003eClaire Keegan’s brilliant debut collection, Antarctica, was a Los Angeles Times Book of the Year, and earned her resounding accolades on both sides of the Atlantic. Now she has delivered her next, much-anticipated book, Walk the Blue Fields, an unforgettable array of quietly wrenching stories about despair and desire in the timeless world of modern-day Ireland. In the never-before-published story “The Long and Painful Death,” a writer awarded a stay to work in Heinrich Böll’s old cottage has her peace interrupted by an unwelcome intruder, whose ulterior motives only emerge as the night progresses. In the title story, a priest waits at the altar to perform a marriage and, during the ceremony and the festivities that follow, battles his memories of a love affair with the bride that led him to question all to which he has dedicated his life; later that night, he finds an unlikely answer in the magical healing powers of a seer.A masterful portrait of a country wrestling with its past and of individuals eking out their futures, Walk the Blue Fields is a breathtaking collection from one of Ireland’s greatest talents, and a resounding articulation of all the yearnings of the human heart.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"readers paradise","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52841401024859,"sku":null,"price":10.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0538\/7105\/0923\/files\/9_52a7b2ae-2095-4dca-9814-dad104ad0129.jpg?v=1776682023","url":"https:\/\/readersparadise.ie\/products\/walk-the-blue-fields","provider":"ReadersParadise","version":"1.0","type":"link"}