Antarctica

by Claire Keegan

A married woman takes a trip to the city with a single purpose in mind - to sleep with another man; Cordelia wakes on the last day of the twentieth century and sets off along the coast road to keep a date with her lover that has been nine years in the waiting; a local postman visits two sisters bearing fishy gifts in the hope that his favour will be returned in kind.

Keegan's characters inhabit a world where dreams, memory and chance can have crippling consequences for those involved.

Publisher: Faber and Faber