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To School Through the Fields

Alice Taylor author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:O'Brien Press Ltd

Published:2nd Sep '13

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To School Through the Fields cover

'A delightful evocation of Irishness and of the author's deep-rooted love of the very fields of home' Publishers Weekly

Alice Taylor’s classic account of growing up in the Irish countryside, the biggest selling book ever published in Ireland, beautifully reproduced with photographs from Alice's life.

If ever a voice has captured the colors, the rhythms, the rich, bittersweet emotions of a time gone by, it is Alice Taylor's. Her tales of childhood in rural Ireland hark back to a timeless past, to a world now lost, but ever and fondly remembered. The colorful characters and joyous moments she offers have made To School Through the Fields an Irish phenomenon, and have made Alice herself the most beloved author in all of the Emerald Isle. A must-have for fans of Alice Taylor.

A delightful evocation of Irishness and of the author’s deep-rooted
love of “the very fields of home” … with its rituals and local characters

* Publishers Weekly *

One of the most richly evocative and moving portraits of
childhood ever written.

* Boston Globe *

Ireland’s Laurie Lee … a chronicler of fading village life and rural rituals

* The Observ

ISBN: 9781847175878

Dimensions: 196mm x 130mm x 27mm

Weight: 400g

240 pages

25th Anniversary Illustrated Edition