To School Through the Fields

To School Through the Fields

Alice Taylor2010
Raised on a farm by a quick-tempered father and a cheerfully indulgent mother, Taylor and her six siblings enjoyed a childhood of boundless freedom as the family worked together sowing their fields, nourished themselves with their own crops and livestock, walked miles across verdant hills to and from their two-room schoolhouse and rode their wagon to Mass in town on Sundays. Told with an earthy, childlike sensuality, Taylor's bestselling memoir powerfully evokes life in rural Ireland.
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