Walk the Blue Fields

In “The Long and Painful Death,” a writer retreating to Heinrich Böll’s former cottage finds her solitude disrupted by an unexpected visitor whose motives slowly emerge over the course of the night. In the title story, a priest waiting to perform a marriage is haunted by memories of a lost love and an affair that forced him to question the life and faith to which he had devoted himself.

With extraordinary precision and emotional depth, Keegan captures a country wrestling with its past and the private desires that shape its people. Walk the Blue Fields is a luminous collection about love, faith, longing, and the enduring complexities of the human heart.