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A House for Two Pounds (Hardcover)
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A House for Two Pounds (Hardcover)
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List price R311
Loot Price R283
Discovery Miles 2 830
You Save R28 (9%)
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A richly recounted memoir of growing up in an Irish farming
community in the 1940s A love of Ireland and the Irish is what
shines through this little memoir. Growing up amongst the fields,
woods and characters of a farming community near Cork, Kathleen
Iggulden depicts a world that is both immediate and real, yet
belongs to a now-distant past. Here is a pony and trap to church
every Sunday, evenings full of fiddle, flute and song, and new
shoes and clothes twice a year. Kathleen's childhood in the 1930s
involved two or three generations - her parents, her brother and
sisters, as well as the daily lives of farmworkers and craftsmen,
friends and relations. She beautifully chronicles rural
celebrations and forgotten practicalities of country life - all
painted with a sensitive touch and a freshness of observation. She
saw her people as intensely polite, decent and innocent, with
humour and music always ready. She saw them as poets, and poetry as
the highest art. Recounted with immense charm and wit, A House for
Two Pounds is a wonderful, vivid account of a childhood on an Irish
farm - and an enduring people, just on the cusp of change.
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