Description The Phelan and the Conway farms stand in hostile confrontatiion across the river. The long dispute between the two families simmers, then explodes.
Meanwhile, Martha Phelan is locked in stubborn conflict with her son Peter. He wants to make changes in the way the farm is run, but she secretly plans quite different changes; the tension between them builds but is suddenly overtaken by the force of a greater problem.
In her second novel Alice Taylor continues the story begun in The Woman of the House, capturing the pulse and sinews of Irish rural life as no other author has done.
Alice Taylor's second bestselling novel, a story of land, love and family; a sequel to The Woman of the House.
"Alice Taylor is an outstanding storyteller. Like a true seanchaí, she uses detail to signal twists in the plot or trouble ahead. It is tightly plotted fiction, an old-fashioned page-turner." The Irish Times
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.
