A stunning new hardback edition of Claire Keegan''s debut story collection. ''A beautiful, tender work of great clarity.'' SEBASTIAN BARRY ''Simply put, Claire Keegan is one of the greatest fiction writers in the world.'' GEORGE SAUNDERS ''Among the finest contemporary stories written recently in English.'' OBSERVER 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. ------- Readers love Antarctica: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ''This is the best short story collection I have ever read. Trust me she is a real find!'' ''⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ '' A skilled writer who immerses us seamlessly in the lives of her characters.'' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ''I have now read every word Claire Keegan has written. That''s how much I love her writing.'' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ '' With her keen eye and lucid prose, Keegan beguiles, jolts and haunts us beyond the pages.'' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ''The writing is both tender, poetic and authentic ... the stories stay with you long after you have finished reading.''

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Claire Keegan's works of fiction are critically acclaimed international bestsellers - and have been translated into more than thirty-five languages. Antarctica won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. Walk the Blue Fields won the Edge Hill Prize for the finest collection of stories published in the British Isles. Foster won the Davy Byrnes Award - the world's richest prize for a short story. Small Things Like These, a New York Times Best Book of the 21st Century, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Rathbones Folio Prize and won the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award. So Late in the Day was published in the New Yorker and shortlisted for the British Book Awards. Keegan was awarded Woman of the Year for Literature in Ireland in 2022, Author of the Year 2023, the Seamus Heaney Award for Arts and Letters 2024 and most recently the Siegfried Lenz Prize.