Tea for One

Tea for One

A Celebration of Little Things

Written by Alice Taylor, Photographs by Emma Byrne

From improving her painting to perfecting her garden, exploring family histories and reclaiming her mother’s art of tea-making, Alice celebrates the small acts that fill her days and make her happy.

Awards

Best Irish Published Book of the Year - 2021

Irish Book Awards - Short-listed

Paperback: €12.99
Paperback: 240 pages
Size:216x135 mm
ISBN: 9781788493376

Hardback: €19.99
Also available as an Hardback (Hardback)
Hardback: 240 pages
Size:216x135 mm
ISBN: 9781788492799

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Category: Biography/Memoir

In Tea for One, Alice Taylor celebrates the little moments that bring us joy

After many busy years raising a family and running a business, Alice is now living alone – with all the challenges and pleasures that brings.

From improving her painting to perfecting her garden, exploring family histories and reclaiming her mother’s art of tea-making, Alice celebrates the small acts that fill her days and make her happy.

Alice Taylor

Alice Taylor lives in the village of Innishannon in County Cork, in a house attached to the local supermarket and post office. Since her eldest son has taken over responsibility for the shop, she has been able to devote more time to her writing.

Alice Taylor worked as a telephonist in Killarney and Bandon. When she married, she moved to Innishannon where she ran a guesthouse at first, then the supermarket and post office. She and her husband, Gabriel Murphy, who sadly passed away in 2005, had four sons and one daughter. In 1984 she edited and published the first issue of Candlelight, a local magazine which has since appeared annually. In 1986 she published an illustrated collection of her own verse.

To School Through the Fields was published in May 1988. It was an immediate success, and quickly became the biggest selling book ever published in Ireland. It launched Alice on a series of signing sessions, talks and readings the length and breadth of Ireland. Her first radio interview, forty two minutes long on RTÉ Radio's Gay Byrne Show, was the most talked about radio programme of 1988, and her first television interview, of the same length, was the highlight of the year on RTÉ television's Late Late Show. Since then she has appeared on radio programmes such as Woman's Hour, Midweek and The Gloria Hunniford Show, and she has been the subject of major profiles in the Observer and the Mail on Sunday.

Alice has written nearly twenty books since then, large exploring her village of Inishannon, and the way of life in rural Ireland. She has also written poetry and fiction: her first novel, The Woman of the House, was an immediate bestseller in Ireland, topping the paperback fiction lists for many weeks.

One of Ireland's most popular authors, her most recent book is And Life Lights Up.

a lovely book … a lovely read

WLR FM’s Saturday Café

one of the darlings of the nation when it comes to writing brilliant books’ ‘a truly lovely book … get it, read it, enjoy it

LMFM’s Late Lunch

Alice Taylor’s book, it’s like sitting and having a big warm blanket wrapped around you … another terrific book … fabulous

Cork Today with Patricia Messenger

a great read

Shannonside & Northern Sound’s Joe Finnegan Show

national treasure

The Bandon Opinion

the beloved storyteller from Inishannon weaves her spell again

Irish Examiner

the beloved storyteller from Inishannon weaves her spell again

Irish Examiner

national treasure

Southern Star
Emma Byrne

Emma Byrne is a graphic designer and artist. She is a graduate of Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design. She has won numerous awards for her design including The IDI (Irish Design Institute) Graduate Designer of the Year, the IDI Promotional Literature Award for her work on Brown Morning, and a Children’s Books Ireland Bisto Merit Award for her work on Something Beginning With P: New Poems from Irish Poets. She has illustrated many books, including Best-Loved Oscar Wilde, Best Loved Yeats, The Most Beautiful Letter in the World by Karl O’Neill, a special edition of Ulysses by James Joyce, and A Terrible Beauty by Mairéad Ashe Fitzgerald. She lives in a thatched house in Co. Wexford.

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Also by Alice Taylor:

And Time Stood Still
Across the River
House of Memories
The Parish
The Woman of the House
The Village

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Also by Emma Byrne:

Irish Thatch
Irish Thatched Cottages
Best-Loved Irish Ballads
The Most Beautiful Letter in the World
Spirit of the Titanic
Tea and Talk

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