Claire Keegan's short story collection Walk the Blue Fields shines a light into the world of rural Ireland, says Anne Enright

Walk the Blue Fields
by Claire Keegan
163pp, Faber, £10.99

One of the most shocking moments in Amongst Women, by John McGahern, is when someone takes a carton of orange juice out of the fridge. A story that might have been set in the 50s is jerked into the 1980s and we realise what was going on outside the terrible, claustrophobic world of Moran's kitchen - not the lives of our parents, but our own.

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