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.

‘Pure magic.’ COLM TÓIBÍN

‘Exquisite … so intricately wrought, so strange and beguiling as to entirely bewitch.’ GUARDIAN