Description
In a quiet Irish landscape marked by change, a young woman’s life is upended when she is drawn into a family’s private crisis, forcing her to navigate loyalty, fear, and the thin line between duty and desire. As days unfold with aching immediacy, the story follows her movement through ordinary spaces that become charged with consequence, revealing how love and power can coexist in the same room. With Claire Keegan’s spare, lyrical prose and keen emotional precision, the novel explores themes of class, vulnerability, and the ways people cope with loss when no one is watching. Told with restraint and depth, it offers a haunting, intimate portrait of what it costs to keep going—and what it means to be seen at last.
Available Editions
paperback
Black Cat
Published Jan 1, 2007
168 pages
ISBN: 9780802170491
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Details
First Published
2007
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Walk the Blue Fields by Claire Keegan.