A special reissue from Head of Zeus\"s bestselling anthology collection of the very best Irish short stories, selected by Sinead Gleeson, author of Constellations, winner of the Irish Book Award Non Fiction Book of the Year 2019. There have been many anthologies of the short story as it developed in Ireland, but never a collection like this....

A poignant and candid memoir by writer, playwright, and artist Bardwell, now in her 80s. She tells of her literary life and associates from the 1930s onwards. Her seemingly idyllic country estate childhood belied the contentious family life and penny-pinching practices that made the appearances possible....