Even Still

Celia de Fréine brings a poet's sensibility to this first collection of short stories: from the half-glimpsed truths of childhood to the small, telling details of an elderly woman recalling the betrayals and disappointments of her young life. Her prose is compelling, her characters' voices pitch perfect. From Dublin's mean streets to the nineteen forties in the north of Ireland, ordinary life takes centre stage, transformed into something luminous.