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Bestselling author, Alice Taylor’s classic account of growing up in the Irish countryside.

About the Author

Alice Taylor is a bestselling Irish author who 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.

Taylor has written nearly twenty books since then, largely exploring her beloved village and the ways of life in rural Ireland, all of which have been successful and have sold internationally. She has also written poetry and fiction; her first novel, The Woman of the House, was an immediate bestseller. Her most recent book is Weathering Storms (2025), another work of memoir. Alice Taylor is a bestselling Irish author who 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.

Taylor has written nearly twenty books since then, largely exploring her beloved village and the ways of life in rural Ireland, all of which have been successful and have sold internationally. She has also written poetry and fiction; her first novel, The Woman of the House, was an immediate bestseller. Her most recent book is Weathering Storms (2025), another work of memoir.

Reviews

'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*

'One of the most richly evocative and moving portraits of
childhood ever written.'
*The Boston Globe*

'Ireland’s Laurie Lee … a chronicler of fading village life
and rural rituals.'
*The Observer*