Book review: A Delicate Wildness
DAVID THOMSON is famous as the author of Woodbrook, a memoir of ‘big house’ life in the 1930s near Carrick-on-Shannon, Co Leitrim, first published in 1974. Author Julian Vignoles, picked up a copy of Woodbrook by chance in 1985.
He writes: ‘The jacket photo was an atmospheric shot of water and reeds. Something struck me about it and I bought it. It changed my life. And so devastated was I with the ending, that I immediately read the whole book again.’
