So Late in the Day

Claire Keegan is a novelist & short story writer, whose work has won numerous awards & been translated into more than 20 languages. Keegan was brought up on a farm in Ireland. At the age of 17, she travelled to New Orleans, where she studied English & Political Science at Loyola University. She returned to Ireland in 1992, & her highly acclaimed 1st volume of short stories - Antarctica - was published in 1999. A second successful collection of stories - Walk the Blue Fields (2007) - was followed by her 1st novel, Foster, which won the 2009 Davy Byrnes Irish Writing Award. Foster was named by the Times as 1 of the top 50 novels to be published in the 21st Century. Keegan is the current holder of the Briena Staunton Visiting Writer Fellowship at Pembroke College, Cambridge.