Description Her first novel, a number one bestseller.
"It is a story of love for the land...People read Alice Taylor's books, people crave Alice Taylor's company because they want to find peace. They find it in the leaves of her books and the folds of her laughter... She has an understanding and a harmony with nature dismissed and forgotten by most of us." Ireland on Sunday
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.
