Description “What makes the story unique is Taylor’s disarming style; she writes as though she were sitting next to you, at dusk, recounting the events of her week...Taylor has a knack for finding the universal truth in daily details.” Los Angeles Times
The third of Alice Taylor’s unique accounts of life in the Irish countryside, and another massive bestseller with universal appeal.
“There is charm and humour in The Village as well as a quality perhaps best described as loving kindness.” Irish Independent
“The Village is the third in the trilogy, and will, I believe, be acknowledged the best... There is something about the rhythm of her prose that matches the rhythm of life in Innishannon. It’s the life in the town that gives life to her language because she has caught the essence of it all, the basic decency, the kindness, the suffering, the humanity of it all.” The Boston Irish Reporter
“She has a wicked wit and a pen which works on the reader slowly but insidiously.” Observer
“Taylor is in love with life, in love with family, in love with people, and in love with nature, and all this affection is evident in every page of the book. This is a book you should read if you are jaded with life and bored with your environment, because Taylor can find joy in any relationship and see beauty in every rural scene.” Irish Echo
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.
