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A legendary Irish female writer who has been dormant for many years has been reborn, reviving the great tradition of Irish short stories. An Irish feminist literary pioneer praised by Alice Munro and Edna O'Brien. This book contains a total of 21 short stories, which follow the lives of several middle-class families in a small street in Dublin, describing secular scenes and family relationships with a strong Irish flavor, sometimes intertextualizing and complementing each other. The author uses the most turbulent depression and the most silent passion to connect the life story of a submissive woman, but the wild horse cannot pull anything out of her body. These stories that reflect the author's childhood and even coincide with the lives of her parents are full of miracles; she penetrates into every hidden corner of the relationship between husband and wife, dissects the emotional dust, and forces the secrets out of hiding, while some of the most touching stories are so miraculous that almost nothing happens at all. Its imagery is profound, and its prose is as plain as water but cruelly poignant enough to "prun the hedges." In the words of the New York Times Book Review, it is "enough to bring Brennan back to the world-class banquet of fiction that she has been absent from for so long."