Claire Keegan Hardback Collection (4 Books)

Buy four stunning new hardback editions of beloved fiction by Claire Keegan: Small Things Like These, Foster, Walk the Blue Fields and Antarctica. RRP value: £51.96.

Bundle offer exclusive to faber.co.uk. The books:

An exquisite winter tale of courage — and its cost, set in Catholic Ireland.

It is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces into his busiest season. As he does the rounds, he feels the past rising up to meet him — and encounters the complicit silences of a people controlled by the Church.

A heartbreaking, haunting story of childhood, loss and love.

It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A girl is sent to live with foster parents on a farm, not 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. But in a house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers how fragile her idyll is.

A stunning new hardback edition of Claire Keegan’s mesmerising second short story collection – an Irish Times Top 100 Irish Books of the 21st Century.

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. A farmer wakes half-naked and realises the money is almost gone. And in the title story, a priest waits on the altar for a bride and battles, all that wedding day, with his memories of a love affair. In her long-awaited second collection, Claire Keegan observes an Ireland wrestling with its past.

A stunning new hardback edition of Claire Keegan’s debut short story collection.

A secret one-night tryst in the city. A sister’s revenge. A love-struck doctor. A missing girl. In Antarctica, an astonishing sequence of stories, one of our most gifted writers illuminates human longing and fallibility in all its variety.