Alice Taylor The Nana

€14.99

Code 9781788494441
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The Irish nana is a repository of family history, memory and lore. Sometimes, like the Italian nonna, she is also a 'walking cookbook', carrying the old knowledge of how things were best done.

Alice's own grandmothers, Nana Taylor and Nana Ballyduane, were the first generation after the Great Famine, born in the 1860s. These women taught their families the Irish traditions and habits of homemaking that survived for centuries, and are now almost gone.

Now Alice herself is a nana too, and this book takes us through three generations and almost a century and a half. She explores the old and the new, the 'then' and 'now', the nana of yesteryear and of today, with her characteristic empathy and love.

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'I always get very excited when Alice Taylor's latest book arrives on my desk and her newest offering [The Nana] once again does not disappoint ... it's like being wrapped up in a patchwork quilt of Nana's love ... the book is absolutely gorgeous, I would suggest anyone to pick it up and buy it ... a gorgeous present'
- C103's Cork Today with Patricia Messenger

'A heart-warming celebration of nanas and grannies up and down the country, Alice Taylor's memoir is like chicken soup for the soul. Reflecting on her memories which go back to her own Nanas, both born in the 1860s, the book remembers the special place they hold in the Irish family ... brings her trademark empathy and warmth to these pages'
- Woman's Way

'That's going to fill many a Christmas stocking this Christmas, that's for sure ... another wonderful, wonderful read'
- The Tommy Marren Show - MidWest Radio

'one of the most beloved authors in the country ... I love the illustrations, the butter churn, the good china, the handbag, the chest of drawers... and so on! ... It's a lovely, lovely book ... you're on the money again with it ... It'll be a lovely gift to give to someone in your life this Christmas time to remind them of times past or ... to remind them what the essence of the nana actually is'
- Gerry Kelly's Late Lunch - LMFM

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