"Vividly entertaining ... written with a quality of mercy added to the acute perception of a child."

Molly Keane, Spectator

Walled Gardens: Scenes from an Irish Childhood

A new elegant trade paperback edition of Walled Gardens will be available in the United States this June. The publishers are Eland Press, and it will be distributed by Dufour.

Walled Gardens—Scenes from an Anglo-Irish Childhood is both a family memoir and an account of life in Southern Ireland by a member of the first generation born since Irish independence. It has been praised by William Trevor (“beautifully written, marvelously remembered”), and by Molly Keane, Isabel Colegate and John Keegan.

Walled Gardens was originally published by Knopf in 1989. Although this is the first paperback edition available in America, the book has been continuously in print since publication.