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8%OFFAlice Taylor - Do You Remember? - 9781847178664 - V9781847178664
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Do You Remember?

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Description for Do You Remember? Paperback. Alice Taylor takes us through her home, reflecting back on the routine of her family life growing up in rural Ireland in the 1950s - a time when food was home-baked and everything was reused. An uplifting account, full of nostalgia and wise words to treasure from Ireland's best-loved author. Num Pages: 256 pages, 50 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJPG; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 196 x 18. Weight in Grams: 278.

Alice Taylor remembers her childhood home – the farm with all its tools and animals, the home with its equipment for living, its daily challenges, constant hard work, and its comforts too.

She describes the huge open fireplace where all the cooking was done, where the big black kettle hung permanently from the crane over the flames; here the family sat in the evenings, talking, knitting, going over the events of the day, saying the rosary. She experienced the sow being brought indoors to have her precious brood of bonhams. She recalls the faithful, beloved horses and their wonderfully ... Read more

All the jobs and tools of a way of life long gone live on in the hearts of those who were formed by it. Here Alice Taylor celebrates them all with love.

'magical … reading the book, I felt a faint ache in my heart … I find myself longing for those days … it is essential reading.' Irish Independent

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Product Details

Publisher
O´Brien Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9781847178664
SKU
V9781847178664
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 3 to 5 working days
Ref
99-99

About Alice Taylor
Alice Taylor lives in the village of Innishannon in County Cork, in a house attached to the local supermarket and post office. Her first book, To School Through the Fields, was published in 1988. It was an immediate success and quickly became the biggest selling book ever published in Ireland. Alice has written nearly twenty books since then, ... Read more

Reviews for Do You Remember?
Taylor's gentle and affectionate view of her homeland is richly refreshing
Library Journal This picture of bucolic life in an earlier time, with its rutuals of religion and the antics of local characters, has universal appeal.
Publishers Weekly One of the most richly evocative and moving portraits of childehood [ever] written... A journey every reader will treasure and ... Read more

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