Lost Fields

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Like the caged lark, Mrs. Griffin feels out of place in the overcrowded house in the back streets of Belfast. Unemployment has brought her son Johnny and his family to the brink of eviction and it is only by giving up her home in the country and moving in with the family that she can give them a chance of survival. The consequences of the grandmother's harsh uprooting reverberate throughout the novel, and as relationships within the family change and develop, her sacrifice brings both tragedy and, unexpectedly, redemption. Lost Fields is an account of working-class life in 1930s Belfast, where the struggle to survive is offset by the love of family and community and by the beauty and joy of the natural world.