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Devlin, Polly

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 029778224X ISBN 13: 9780297782247

Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1983

Synopsis

Polly Devlin grew up in County Tyrone, on the shores of Lough Neagh, in the fifties -- but it might as well have been another time and place altogether. In this memoir she describes in witty, spontaneous and idiosyncratic prose her life as one of seven siblings in a Catholic family in Northern Ireland.'A brooding, evocative study of Irish childhood, of the strong bonds of love and jealousy that sisters especially feel, the guilt-ridden pressures of religion, the magical countryside, the eccentric villagers. A hauntingly lovely work ... beautifully written with poetic intensity which seems to encapsulate the Irish character with all its wit and bitterness and gift for words' HOMES AND GARDENS

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About the Author

Polly Devlin (b. 1944) is a well-known journalist (Vogue, Observer, Sun. Times) and broadcaster who has worked in both Britain and America. Currently writing a novel for Chatto, she divides her time between Dublin, London and Somerset.

Review

This many-layered reminiscence glints across the indifferent, mysterious, yet comfortable countryside, classrooms fraught with the usual student shenanigans and insecurities and the intensity of Devlin's close relationship with her five sisters. * IRISH TIMES * It is the only intimate and un-angry expression of the feelings of a colonised people that I have ever read * David Thomson * Touching and nostalgic * GUARDIAN * She conjures places as vividly as feelings, and feelings as exactly as her surroundings. She reinvents the past with the aid of photographic prose, an album not only for herself and her sisters in Ireland, but full of pictures many who read this book will recognise * VOGUE *

About this edition

• Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 029778224X
• ISBN 13: 9780297782247
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 200