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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 are a tutor. He stayed for ten years. This memoir, acknowledged as a masterpiece, grew out of two great loves - for Woodbrook and for Phoebe, his pupil. In it he builds up a delicate, lyrical picture of a gentle pre-war society, of Irish history and troubled Anglo-Irish relations, and of a delightful family. Above all, his story reverberates with the enchantment of falling in love and with the desolation of bereavement.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Woodbrook
• Author: David Thomson
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336
• EAN: 9780099359913
• ISBN: 009935991X
• ID: 04015957
• Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• Weight: 242 g
• Dimensions: 196 × 130 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 17. February 1994

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