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Antarctica

Claire Keegan
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  • ISBN 9780571396795
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 09 Oct 2025
  • Publisher: Faber & Faber
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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A stunning new hardback edition of Claire Keegan's debut story collection.

'A beautiful, tender work of great clarity.' SEBASTIAN BARRY
'Simply put, Claire Keegan is one of the greatest fiction writers in the world.' GEORGE SAUNDERS
'Among the finest contemporary stories written recently in English.' OBSERVER

A secret one-night tryst in the city. A sister's revenge. A love-struck doctor. A missing girl. In Antarctica, an astonishing sequence of stories, one of our most gifted writers illuminates human longing and fallibility in all its variety.

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Readers love Antarctica:

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'This is the best short story collection I have ever read. Trust me she is a real find!'

'⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'A skilled writer who immerses us seamlessly in the lives of her characters.'

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'I have now read every word Claire Keegan has written. That's how much I love her writing.'

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'With her keen eye and lucid prose, Keegan beguiles, jolts and haunts us beyond the pages.'

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'The writing is both tender, poetic and authentic ... the stories stay with you long after you have finished reading.'
About Claire Keegan
Claire Keegan's stories have been translated into more than thirty-five languages. Antarctica won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. Walk the Blue Fields won the Edge Hill Prize, awarded to the best collection of stories published in the British Isles. Foster won the Davy Byrnes Award, one of the richest literary prizes in the world, and was last year chosen by The Times as one of the top fifty works of fiction to be published in the twenty- first century. Small Things Like These was shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize, and for the Rathbones Folio Prize, awarded for the best work of literature, regardless of form, to be published in the English language, and won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction.

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