Do You Remember?
Alice Taylor
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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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