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'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. 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. Illustrated throughout with evocative photographs, with a new introduction by the author, looking back at her breakthrough book twenty five years later.

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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 Observer *

Ireland's Laurie Lee ... a chronicler of fading village life and rural rituals * The Observer * One of the most richly evocative and moving portraits of childhood ever written. * Boston Globe * 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 *

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 Observer

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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, largely exploring her beloved village and the ways of life in rural Ireland. She has also written poetry and fiction: her first novel, The Woman of the House, was an immediate bestseller. Most recently, she wrote a children's picture book with her daughter Lena Angland, called Ellie and the Fairy Door.

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