Description “The Night Before Christmas is a nostalgic and loving look back to a family firmly rooted in tradition and humour. Whether the reader is in the teens or is a senior citizen, this book will charm and captivate. It truly pulls back the curtain of time to the days when Christmas was really Christmas.” Irish Independent
“A lovely, lovely book.” Ireland of the Welcomes
“Full of finely observed detail rendered with the misleading simplicity of a real craftswoman.” In Dublin
“A1 for the stocking of anyone you can think of.” Books Ireland
“Alice Taylor has an unerring knack of bringing her readers into her home. Her stories of a childhood Christmas are rich, warm and amusing, and we are given a wonderful insight into life as it was. As with her other books, she writes in a very captivating manner in the old storytelling tradition.” Shell People Magazine
“Magical.” Irish 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.
