Summary
‘Woodbrook is simply one of the most enchanting books I’ve read in a long time - it begins in delight before it ends in wisdom’ - Seamus Heaney
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 as a tutor. He stayed for ten years.
This memoir, acknowledged as a masterpiece, grew out of…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099359913 |
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| ISBN-10: | 009935991X |
| Author: | David Thomson |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 5 July 1994 |
| Weight: | 246g |
| Dimensions: | 200mm x 131mm x 22mm |
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A brilliantly original mix of love-story, memoir and history
A brilliantly original mix of love-story, memoir and history – Brian MooreIt remains with one long after the story is told, a haunting sadness, a memory and a dream – Olivia Manning * Spectator *
About The Author
David Thomson
David Thomson was born in India in 1914 to Scottish parents, but grew up in Scotland and Derbyshire. After the period described in Woodbrook he developed a career in writing and at the BBC. He died in 1988.
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