To School Through the Fields - Tapa blanda

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 * Publisher's Weekly *

'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 colours, 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 colourful 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 Ireland. A must-have for fans of Alice Taylor.