9781906011024
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Anglo-Irish
Anglo-Irish Household
Annabel Goff
Author_Annabel Davis-Goff
Casemate
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Childhood memoir
Eland Publishing
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Ireland 1940s
Memoir
Southern Ireland
Walled Gardens
Product details
- ISBN 9781906011024
- Dimensions: 135 x 215mm
- Publication Date: 29 Feb 2008
- Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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"Walled Gardens" is a brilliant portrait of the Anglo-Irish ascendancy, struggling through the post-war depression aided by drink, horse-racing and religion, and their own idiosyncratic adaptations to modern life. Seen from the troubled perspective of the daughter of an aristocratic family in decline, we watch the disintegration of a marriage in elegant but emotionally chilled surroundings, and the struggle to keep up appearances, and a collapsing roof, in front of the neighbours. By turns sad, absured and funny, the story is ultimately liberating as failure leads to freedom.
