Woodbrook

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This memoir builds up a delicate, lyrical picture of a gentle pre-war society, of Irish history and troubled Anglo-Irish relations and of a delightful family.

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Woodbrook is a rare house that gives its name to a small, rural area in Ireland, not far from the old port of Sligo. It has been owned since the seventeenth century by the Anglo-Irish Kirkwoods. In 1932, David Thomson, aged eighteen, went there are a tutor. He stayed for ten years.

This memoir, acknowledged as a masterpiece, grew out of two great loves – for Woodbrook and for Phoebe, his pupil. In it he builds up a delicate, lyrical picture of a gentle pre-war society, of Irish history and troubled Anglo-Irish relations, and of a delightful family. Above all, his story reverberates with the enchantment of falling in love and with the desolation of bereavement.

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Weight 0.234 kg
Dimensions 19.8 × 12.9 × 2 cm
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Cover

Paperback

Pages

332

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

941.7250822092 (edition:21)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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