Six at the Table: Take the 70s, Add Family and Mix Well - Softcover

Sheila Maher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0856408697 ISBN 13: 9780856408694

Publisher: Blackstaff Press Ltd, 2011

Synopsis

In the 1970s, for a nine-year-old in Dublin, a Tea Time Express cake was a treat almost beyond imagining, a whole packet of Tayto to yourself was a rarity and the weekly forcing-down of your mum's meatloaf an all-too-familiar ordeal. In Six at the Table, Sheila Maher tells the story of her childhood through meals shared around the kitchen table (and occasionally from the boot of the car on those long journeys to reach faraway campsites) - a celebration of family and the central role that the food lovingly prepared by her mother played in her young years. From sliced egg, beetroot and cold ham salad on summer days to the milk puddings that marked the passage of the winter weeks, Six at the Table is a nostalgic journey through an Irish childhood in the 1970s, when uniforms were itchy, porridge stuck to your ribs and Cidona felt like the height of sophistication. Six at the Table is a warm, funny and bittersweet evocation of childhood.

About this title

About the Author

SHEILA MAHER was born in Dublin in 1970 and educated at her local convent school. In 1998 she began lecturing in marketing at Dun Laoghaire Vocation Education Committee. Not long after, she hooked up with an old friend - marriage and three children followed, and Sheila is now on a five-year career break, giving her time for her children and time for her writing. Six at the Table is her first book.

Edition details

• Publisher: Blackstaff Press Ltd
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0856408697
• ISBN 13: 9780856408694
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192