To School Through The Fields

If ever a voice has captured the colors, the rhythms, the rich, bittersweet emotions of a time gone by, it is Alice Taylor's. This classic account of growing up in the Irish countryside became the biggest selling book ever published in Ireland. Twenty-five years after its first publication, this new edition celebrates Alice Taylor’s first book, a much-loved bestseller and a true classic. Life in rural 1940s and 50s Ireland: on the farm working with horses, rearing and growing the family’s food; an old-world life of self-sufficiency, friendship and, above all, neighbourliness. The walk to school was challenging but often delightful, with many stops along to way for sustenance or entertainment, at a time when children could roam free. About To School through the Fields: ‘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 ‘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 ‘There is no writer more full of the milk of human kindness’ Books Ireland '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, beautifully reproduced with photographs from Alice's life. 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.