Alice Taylor & Emma Byrne Tea for One: A Celebration of Little Things

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In Tea for One, Alice Taylor celebrates the little moments that bring us joy

After many busy years raising a family and running a business, Alice is now living alone - with all the challenges and pleasures that brings.

From improving her painting to perfecting her garden, exploring family histories and reclaiming her mother's art of tea-making, Alice celebrates the small acts that fill her days and make her happy.

About the Author

Alice Taylor lives in the village of Innishannon in County Cork, in a house attached to the local supermarket and post office. Since her eldest son has taken over responsibility for the shop, she has been able to devote more time to her writing.

Alice Taylor worked as a telephonist in Killarney and Bandon. When she married, she moved to Innishannon where she ran a guesthouse at first, then the supermarket and post office. She and her husband, Gabriel Murphy, who sadly passed away in 2005, had four sons and one daughter. In 1984 she edited and published the first issue of Candlelight, a local magazine which has since appeared annually. In 1986 she published an illustrated collection of her own verse.

To School Through the Fields was published in May 1988. It was an immediate success, and quickly became the biggest selling book ever published in Ireland. It launched Alice on a series of signing sessions, talks and readings the length and breadth of Ireland. Her first radio interview, forty two minutes long on RTE Radio's Gay Byrne Show, was the most talked about radio programme of 1988, and her first television interview, of the same length, was the highlight of the year on RTE television's Late Late Show. Since then she has appeared on radio programmes such as Woman's Hour, Midweek and The Gloria Hunniford Show, and she has been the subject of major profiles in the Observer and the Mail on Sunday.

Alice has written nearly twenty books since then, large exploring her village of Inishannon, and the way of life in rural Ireland. She has also written poetry and fiction: her first novel, The Woman of the House, was an immediate bestseller in Ireland, topping the paperback fiction lists for many weeks.

Emma Byrne is a graphic designer and artist. She is a graduate of Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design. She has won numerous awards for her design including The IDI (Irish Design Institute) Graduate Designer of the Year, the IDI Promotional Literature Award for her work on Brown Morning, and a Children's Books Ireland Bisto Merit Award for her work on Something Beginning With P: New Poems from Irish Poets. She has illustrated many books, including Best-Loved Oscar Wilde, Best Loved Yeats, The Most Beautiful Letter in the World by Karl O'Neill, a special edition of Ulysses by James Joyce, and A Terrible Beauty by Mairead Ashe Fitzgerald. She lives in a thatched house in Co. Wexford.

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'a lovely book ... a lovely read'
- WLR FM's Saturday Cafe

'one of the darlings of the nation when it comes to writing brilliant books ... a truly lovely book ... get it, read it, enjoy it'
- LMFM's Late Lunch

'Alice Taylor's book, it's like sitting and having a big warm blanket wrapped around you ... another terrific book ... fabulous'
- Cork Today with Patricia Messenger

'a great read'
- Shannonside & Northern Sound's Joe Finnegan Show

'national treasure'
- The Bandon Opinion

'the beloved storyteller from Inishannon weaves her spell again'
- Irish Examiner

'the beloved storyteller from Inishannon weaves her spell again'
- Irish Examiner

'national treasure'
- Southern Star

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