From improving her painting to perfecting her garden, exploring family histories and reclaiming her mother's art of tea-making, Alice celebrates the small acts that fill her days and make her happy.
From improving her painting to perfecting her garden, exploring family histories and reclaiming her mother's art of tea-making, Alice celebrates the small acts that fill her days and make her happy.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Alice Taylor lives in the village of Innishannon in County Cork, in a house attached to the local supermarket and post office. Since her eldest son has taken over responsibility for the shop, she has been able to devote more time to her writing. Alice Taylor worked as a telephonist in Killarney and Bandon. When she married, she moved to Innishannon where she ran a guesthouse at first, then the supermarket and post office. She and her husband, Gabriel Murphy, who sadly passed away in 2005, had four sons and one daughter. In 1984 she edited and published the first issue of Candlelight, a local magazine which has since appeared annually. In 1986 she published an illustrated collection of her own verse. To School Through the Fields was published in May 1988. It was an immediate success, and quickly became the biggest selling book ever published in Ireland. It launched Alice on a series of signing sessions, talks and readings the length and breadth of Ireland. Her first radio interview, forty two minutes long on RTÉ Radio's Gay Byrne Show, was the most talked about radio programme of 1988, and her first television interview, of the same length, was the highlight of the year on RTÉ television's Late Late Show. Since then she has appeared on radio programmes such as Woman's Hour, Midweek and The Gloria Hunniford Show, and she has been the subject of major profiles in the Observer and the Mail on Sunday. Alice has written nearly twenty books since then, large exploring her village of Inishannon, and the way of life in rural Ireland. She has also written poetry and fiction: her first novel, The Woman of the House, was an immediate bestseller in Ireland, topping the paperback fiction lists for many weeks. One of Ireland's most popular authors, her most recent book is And Life Lights Up.
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Contents
Learning from the Elders page 9 As Time Goes By 11
Solitude 21 Let's 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, It's Cold Outside 205 Hope Springs Eternal 215 Roots 223
Learning from the Elders page 9 As Time Goes By 11
Solitude 21 Let's 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, It's Cold Outside 205 Hope Springs Eternal 215 Roots 223
Afterword 233
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