Woodbrook is a rare house that gives its name to a small, rural area in Irel&, not far from the old port of Sligo. It has been owned since the seventeenth century by the Anglo-Irish Kirkwoods. In 1932, David Thomson, aged eighteen, went there are a tutor. He stayed for ten years. This memoir, acknowledged as a masterpiece, grew out of two great loves
- for Woodbrook & for Phoebe, his pupil. In it he builds up a delicate, lyrical picture of a gentle pre-war society, of Irish history & troubled Anglo-Irish relations, & of a delightful family. Above all, his story reverberates with the enchantment of falling in love & with the desolation of bereavement.