Background
Davis-Goff was born in Ireland to Anglo-Irish parents. Her father was Sir Ernest William Davis-Goff, 3rd Baronet Her mother was Alice Cynthia Sainthill Woodhouse.
( The author of the New York Times Notable Book The Dower...)
The author of the New York Times Notable Book The Dower House, known for her elegant prose and her keen eye for the nuances of class, now adds the lush, large-screen immediacy of a Merchant-Ivory film to her compelling tale of a woman and a culture forever changed by World War II. Only a few days after Daisy Creed precipitously marries Patrick Nugent, scion of an Anglo-Irish family, Patrick rejoins his regiment in France. Having never met her in-laws, Daisy sets sail for her new home, Dunmaine, County Waterford. The family's affairs echo its estate: grand and forbidding on the outside, decaying and corrupt within. Patrick's vain, spoiled sister, Corisande, soon flees to her lover, leaving Daisy alone with Patrick's feeble brother, Mickey, and grandmother, Maud, who has taken to her bed. In her determination to save Dunmaine and secure her place as its mistress, Daisy unwittingly becomes an accomplice in a dangerous political plot, as old and as fraught as The Troubles. With grace and wit, Davis-Goff portrays a lost way of life and the war that rendered it obsolete. In the character of Daisy Creed she has created an unforgettable Everywoman of her time--part Elizabeth Bennett, part Scarlett O'Hara.
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( Widely praised for her rich and elegant prose, Annabel ...)
Widely praised for her rich and elegant prose, Annabel Davis-Goff delivers the story of Molly Hassard, an Anglo-Irish orphan coming of age in a formerly privileged society. As the Protestant-Irish emerge from the postwar years, the refuse to face the inevitable: They have beautiful old houses, but can scarcely afford to heat them; eat meals on exquisitely set tables, while the roof leaks; and talk very seriously about the importance of making suitable marriages. When Molly flees the genteel poverty of Ireland for London of the 1960s, she must balance the allure of the new against the romance of a world that no longer exists.
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(This anthology starts with the Bible and ends with Hunter...)
This anthology starts with the Bible and ends with Hunter Thompson (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas). It's a fascinating collection of excerpts from all literary genres, all focusing on the central theme of gambling. Indexed 241 pages Hardcover 1996
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Davis-Goff was born in Ireland to Anglo-Irish parents. Her father was Sir Ernest William Davis-Goff, 3rd Baronet Her mother was Alice Cynthia Sainthill Woodhouse.
She left Ireland in her teens, and worked in England in television and film, before moving to the United States of America. She is best known for her family memoir Walled Gardens (1989). She has published several more books since, including The Dower House (1997), This Cold Country (2002) and The Fox’s Walk. She has edited The Literary Companion to Gambling and has reviewed books for the New York Times and Entertainment Weekly.
She teaches in Bennington College and divides her time between Manhattan and Vermont.
They had 2 children together: Max Nichols and Jenny Nichols.
( The author of the New York Times Notable Book The Dower...)
( Widely praised for her rich and elegant prose, Annabel ...)
(This anthology starts with the Bible and ends with Hunter...)
Children: Max, Jenny.