Some people are home alone by choice, while others, like Alice, journeyed into it through a change of circumstances. Alice discovers the challenges and pleasures of living alone.
Some people are home alone by choice, while others, like Alice, journeyed into it through a change of circumstances. But no matter how it comes about, living alone has its minuses and its pluses. We strive to get the balance right, finding ways to enjoy the peace and solitude and keep ourselves occupied. From improving her painting to perfecting her garden, exploring family histories and reclaiming her mothers art of tea-making, Alice discovers the challenges and pleasures of living alone.
Recenzijos
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Daugiau informacijos
Short-listed for Best Irish Published Book of the Year 2021 (Ireland).
Contents
Learning from the Elders page 9
As Time Goes By 11
Solitude 21
Lets Have a Cup of Tea 23
The Gift of a Book 29
My Beloved Comforter 39
Catch Your Hare 47
A Gaggle of Geese 55
History in Our Heads 63
Written in Stone 73
Gardening 83
A Little Bit of Heaven 85
Fake or Real? 91
The Scent of a Rose 101
Gatherings 109
And God Made Sunday 111
Separate Tables 121
Sign of the Times 129
Going the Distance 137
Challenges in Isolation 145
Grounded! 147
Storm in a Teacup 151
Not Now! 157
Changing Seasons 165
Goodbye, Goodbye to Summer 167
Flower Power 173
And Here Comes Christmas 181
The Highway to Santa 191
Releasing Happy Hormones 199
Baby, Its Cold Outside 205
Hope Springs Eternal 215
Roots 223
Afterword 233
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.
Emma Byrne is a graphic designer and artist. She is a graduate of Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design. She has won numerous awards for her design including The IDI (Irish Design Institute) Graduate Designer of the Year, the IDI Promotional Literature Award for her work on Brown Morning, and a Childrens Books Ireland Bisto Merit Award for her work on Something Beginning With P: New Poems from Irish Poets. She has illustrated many books, including Best-Loved Oscar Wilde, Best-Loved Yeats, The Most Beautiful Letter in the World by Karl ONeill, a special edition of Ulysses by James Joyce, and A Terrible Beauty by Mairéad Ashe Fitzgerald. Her other books are Irish Thatch and, with Eoin OBrien, Best-Loved Irish Ballads.
