Claire Keegan

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550 appearances 4 recordings 3 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 21 Jun

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The Women's Podcast · The Book Club: Summer reading recommendations with Claire Keegan · 11 Jun 2026 podcast

And McGehan wrote very well about Dublin, even though people associate him with rural stories and rural Ireland.

He knew Dublin and wrote Dublin very well.

One of the things I love about the story is the depiction of summer.

And how he goes after, he's kind of the object of desire, even though there's a relationship in the story.

It isn't the woman, he gets the woman at the end of the first page.

He asks her if they'll marry, and she says, no, we'll move in together.

So that's that sorted on the first page, and he just meets her after years on the top of the first page.

So there's some economy for you.

But he wants to go back and make the hay at home.

And his father and his stepmother live at home and he has this kind of obsession with going back and getting the old clothes out in the sun and making the hay.

But it's really interesting because there's no actual hay made in the story, which I find just a strange omission because he goes back again and the hay has already been made.

And I just thought how strange that you wouldn't have the description of making the hay in it, and then when he goes back the second time, to have that not be what he's about to do.

So I just love the story.

There's a wonderful scene in it where they go in and see his father, the narrator's father, and the narrator comes out and says, you'll never believe what my father said.

He said, what age is your intended?

She looks well on her way to 40.

And I thought that was wonderful because so much of good literature is about human stupidity.

And that is true.

The things we should not have done, should not have said, is the making of good literature.

And she just says, oh God, we'll go home now.

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