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Woodbrook

Paperback • 2018 • English • 1. edition

Woodbrook

By David Thomson

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About the book

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 troub...Show more

Biography: general
Rural communities

Book details

ISBN

9780099359913

Publisher

Vintage

Published year

2018

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Woodbrook

Format

Paperback

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