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This is the Third Edition of Val Mulkerns critically acclaimed novel, originally published in 1984 by the historical British publishing house, John Murray.

Every summer members of the ODonoghue family return to the Irish garrison town of Ferrycarrig to the house where they all grew up.

It seems none of the family has quite escaped the meshes of their childhood. In that house academic excellence has always been taken for granted and there is no quarter for those who failed. Eleanor, the cleverest daughter, retains her status but despises her husband Con. Their daughter, Julia, retreats...

This new collection brings together a selection of Val Mulkerns' short fiction from three collections, Antiquities (AndrE Deutsch, 1978), An Idle Woman, (Poolbeg Press, 1980) and A Friend of Don Juan (John Murray, 1988). The stories take us from the cell of a rebel prisoner in 1916 through hard times in Dublin of the 1930s, the changing world of Ireland in the 60s and 70s and finally the eponymous 'Memory and Desire, ' a quintessential tale of the 80s.

Irish author Colm TOibIn described the title story as "one of the finest short stories that has been published in Ireland for many...