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First published in 1988, ''To School Through the Fields'', now available in a new reprint, apparently became Ireland’s Ireland's biggest selling memoir of all time. I did enjoy reading this but found it a little disappointing.
To School Through the Fields is the memoir of a farmer’s daughter who grew up in rural County Cork in the 1940s (though the book never mentions the date of when it is set). Taylor makes it clear at the beginning that she is writing a nostalgic look back at the era of her childhood, before the ''changing winds of time'' and then presents a series of anecdotes about her parents, her family and some of the other characters who lived in her village.
