The Nana by Alice Taylor

The Nana by Alice Taylor

The Irish nana is a repository of family history, memory and lore.Alice celebrates her own nanas, part of the generation born after the Great Famine. She herself is now a nana too, and explores the old and the new, the then and now, the nana of yesteryear and of today, with her characteristic empathy and love.

I always get very excited when Alice Taylor’s latest book arrives on my desk and her newest offering [The Nana] once again does not disappoint … it’s like being wrapped up in a patchwork quilt of Nana’s love … the book is absolutely gorgeous, I would suggest anyone to pick it up and buy it … a gorgeous present

-- C103’s Cork Today with Patricia Messenger

A heart-warming celebration of nanas and grannies up and down the country, Alice Taylor’s memoir is like chicken soup for the soulReflecting on her memories which go back to her own Nanas, both born in the 1860s, the book remembers the special place they hold in the Irish family … brings her trademark empathy and warmth to these pages

-- Woman's Way

That’s going to fill many a Christmas stocking this Christmas, that’s for sure … another wonderful, wonderful read

-- The Tommy Marren Show - MidWest Radio

one of the most beloved authors in the country … I love the illustrations, the butter churn, the good china, the handbag, the chest of drawers… and so on! … It’s a lovely, lovely book … you’re on the money again with it … It’ll be a lovely gift to give to someone in your life this Christmas time to remind them of times past or … to remind them what the essence of the nana actually is

-- Gerry Kelly's Late Lunch - LMFM

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 Children’s 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 O’Neill, 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 O’Brien, Best-Loved Irish Ballads.

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ISBN 13	9781788493864
ISBN 10	1788493869
Title	The Nana
Author	Alice Taylor
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	O'Brien Press Ltd
Year published	2022-10-03
Number of pages	240
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.