"Nouvelles irlandaises de langue anglaise." . . "Ireland" . . . . . . . . . "In the middle of the fields and other stories" . . . "In the middle of the fields, and other stories" . "In the middle of the fields, and other stories"@en . . . . "Fiction" . "Fiction"@en . "In the middle of the fields : and other stories"@en . . . . . . "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." . . . . "Short stories" . .