The Village

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THE VILLAGE
ALICE TAYLOR
by the author of To School Through the Fields
If you drive through our village late on a luinter's evening and take the wooded road toiuards West Cork a warm glow salutes you through the open door of a small stone building luith a roof melloived by time and weather Huddled beneath a large beech tree beside the bridge at the entrance to Dromkeen Wood is Billy's Forge, where five generations of his family have shod horses, passing on their trade from father to son down through the years.
Alice Taylor paints a memorable portrait of village life in the third of her books of memoirs of country life. Its pages are full of character and characters, unfolding stories of ordinary people and everyday events.
They knew each other well, as only people whose families have lived side by side for generations can know each other. Change had come in their lifetime but because they had lived so long with the old way they held on to it, taking it with them when they... Tovább

Fülszöveg

THE VILLAGE
ALICE TAYLOR
by the author of To School Through the Fields
If you drive through our village late on a luinter's evening and take the wooded road toiuards West Cork a warm glow salutes you through the open door of a small stone building luith a roof melloived by time and weather Huddled beneath a large beech tree beside the bridge at the entrance to Dromkeen Wood is Billy's Forge, where five generations of his family have shod horses, passing on their trade from father to son down through the years.
Alice Taylor paints a memorable portrait of village life in the third of her books of memoirs of country life. Its pages are full of character and characters, unfolding stories of ordinary people and everyday events.
They knew each other well, as only people whose families have lived side by side for generations can know each other. Change had come in their lifetime but because they had lived so long with the old way they held on to it, taking it with them when they died.
Born near Newmarket, Co. Cork, Alice Taylor lives in Innishannon where her family runs the local ' supermarket and post office; she has four sons and one daughter. She is the author of two previous memoirs of country life, To School Through the Fields and Quench the Lamp, and of Close to the Earth: Poems of Country Life, An Irish Country Diary, An Evening with Alice Taylor (tape), and a children's book, The Secrets of the Oak. Vissza