Description “House of Memories shows her in her prime as a novelist.” Irish Independent
“It is Alice Taylor’s strength to make the natural everyday world come alive in clear fresh prose. In this book, as in her memoirs, she does so beautifully.”
The Irish Book Review
This sequel to The Woman of the House and Across the River is a story of love for the home place and of the passions and jealousies it can inspire. Following his brutish father’s unlamented death, young Danny Conway strives to rescue the family farm from ruin; when all seems hopeless, help comes from the most unexpected quarter.
House of Memories tells a story of resilience in the face of family tragedy; a story, too, of bereavement and grief, and of trying to cope with loss. No one knows the warp and weft of country life as Alice Taylor does, and in her third novel she again displays her unique ability to capture its rhythms and cadences.
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.
