Walled Gardens by Annabel Davis-Goff
This is a journey both into a time and a place - the South of Ireland in the 1940s and 1950s. The author describes a childhood outside the main currents of the twentieth century; her parents still went fox hunting and horse racing and relied on readily available servants from a vast and inexpensive work-pool. At the same time they had no central heating, no television, and the roof leaked. Like many other Anglo-Irish families they attempted outlandish and impractical schemes to maintain deteriorating driveways and crumbling houses. This is an affectionate yet unsentimental memoir of a transitional generation, one born too late to benefit from the last years of the Ascendancy, but too early to integrate into the mainstream of contemporary Irish life.| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780907871422 |
| ISBN 10 | 0907871429 |
| Title | Walled Gardens |
| Author | Annabel Davis-Goff |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Eland Publishing Ltd |
| Year published | 1994-11-14 |
| Number of pages | 276 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |