In the Middle of the Fields, and Other Stories

Miss Lavin's six stories all have Ireland as a setting and tell of delicate human relationships. A woman farmer, recently widowed, has an encounter with a neighbour; a fading beauty is courted and won by a man she has loved for many years; the nursing of a sick man in his final illness and the cost to his daughters; two students who meet and talk in Dublin; an inconclusive affair between a young man and an older woman; the antagonastic relationship between two people forced by circumstances to live under same roof.