Clare West At home we started with an innocent life. Walking home from village dances across pale wet fields, looking at birds on the moonlit lake, playing a tune across the water in the early morning with no other sound in the clear cold air. Innocence and experience, loss and longing, humour and sadness run hand in hand through these stories. The stories in this volume of World Stories are by Irish writers Brian Friel, Edna OBrien, William Trevor, Lorcan Byrne, Frank OConnor, Claire Keegan, Eamonn Sweeney, and Somerville & Ross.