Woodbrook

Thomson's memoir of 10 years spent as tutor in an Anglo-Irish household not far from Sligo, grew out of his two great loves - for <strong>Woodbrook</strong> and... » 

Thomson's memoir of 10 years spent as tutor in an Anglo-Irish household not far from Sligo, grew out of his two great loves - for Woodbrook and for Phoebe, his pupil. It offers a picture of genteel pre-war society, of the enchantment of falling in love and the desolation of bereavement. «