'At home we started with an innocent life. Walking home from villagedances across pale wet fields, looking at birds on the moonlit lake,playing a tune across the water in the early morning with no othersound in the clear cold air.' Innocence and experience, loss andlonging, humour and sadness run hand in hand through these stories.The stories in this volume of World Stories are by Irish writers Brian Friel, Edna O'Brien, William Trevor, Lorcan Byrne, Frank O'Connor,Claire Keegan, Eamonn Sweeney, and Somerville & Ross.
