Alice Taylor: The Nana [2022] hardback CGRAP and a notable spy

and a notable spy

search for a fate that they might fashion by their own will

one drunken fop could be the difference between victory and defeat

slightly embarrassed by the sensation

lingers long after the last page' Elizabeth Fremantle

Alice Taylor: The Nana [2022] hardback CGRAP and a notable spyThe 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.