A collection of nine of the great Irish writer's stories set in her homeland. One of the most highly regarded novelists of this century and a prolific writer of short stories, she made the short story peculiarly her own and some of her Irish stories -- including "Her Table Spread", "Summer Night", and "The Happy Autumn Fields", all included in this collection, are considered by Glendinning, who was her official biographer, to be among her greatest.