Description "Beautifully written; she gently and accurately writes about old age, death, the countryside and animals. Poetry that will bring a smile to the face of a reader, or leave them thinking about their own mortality. It is a book that can be dipped into quietly again and again because she exhibits an unerring sense of what is real, of what life is really like." Examiner
Author Alice Taylor is the biggest-selling author ever published in Ireland. Her first memoir of country life, To School Through the Fields, was published in 1988 and has become acknowledged internationally as a classic account of childhood; its sequels, Quench the Lamp, The Village, Country Days and The Night Before Christmas have also been bestsellers.
In 1997 her first novel, The Woman of the House, also established her as a bestselling novelist, and was followed in 1999 by a sequel, Across the River.
The biggest-bestseller ever published in Ireland, a universal classic of recollective writing which has been published in translation in many countries from Japan to Poland.
