Introduction / Gordon Snell -- Watery lanes / Shane Connaughton -- Dot on the i / Jenny Roche -- When Grania grows up / Maeve Binchy -- One day when we were young / Vincent Banville -- Saying goodbye / Tony Hickey -- On the verge of extinction / Peter Cunningham -- A headstrong girl / Ita Daly -- To dream of white horses / June Considine -- Good girl / Marita Conlon-McKenna -- Landlocked / Helena Mulkerns -- Thicker than water / Emma Donoghue -- Off ya go, So / Chris Lynch -- About the editor