Rathcormick Set in 1950s rural Ireland, this a tale of a large and happy family: a domineering Papa, a warm and practical Mama, their two daughters and six sons. For Homan, the youngest, life is a free-spirited awakening in a world of old-fashioned virtue and frugality. But no boyhood lasts forever, and an abrupt turn of events signals an end to the idyll. Full description
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Review:
"Moving, funny and bleak by turns, there is nothing sentimental about it" (Times Literary Supplement)
"Not a wet miserable childhood, àla Frank McCourt, but a Protestant childhood and one that makes for hugely enjoyable reading" (Independent on Sunday)
"An evocative account of Protestant life in mid-century Ireland...ornamented with charming line drawings by Jeremy Williams" (Irish Independent)
"The twenty-six chapters are beautifully crafted-lively, elegant... A classic memoir" (Irish Times)
"Rathcormick is an intriguing insight into the [Protestant] class, its mores, its thrifty values. Homan Potterton has dipped into the vintage, sipped some, and gently offers us a taste" (Sunday Tribune)
From the Author:
Light-hearted memoir of a Protestant childhood in Southern Ireland during the 1950s. Witty drawings throughout by Jeremy Williams.
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