The Crocodile by the Door: The Story of a House, a Farm and a Family

by SelinaGuinness (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2012

  $3.44

  The Crocodile by the Door by Selina Guinness is a remarkable, compelling and moving memoir of a farm, a family and a home. When Selina Guinness and her partner Colin, both young academics, moved in with Selina's uncle Charles, an elderly bachelor, they had no idea what the coming years held for them: a crash course in farming, tense discussions with helicopter-borne property developers, human tragedy, and the challenge of dragging a quasi-feudal estate at the edge of Dublin into the twenty-first century. The Crocodile by the Door - a dazzling debut memoir that will appeal to fans of Edmund de Waal, William Fiennes and Richard Benson's The Farm - tells this remarkable story. Selina Guinness lives in the Dublin mountains with her husband, their children, and a lot of sheep. The Crocodile by the Door is her first book. Something close to a small masterpiece ...enchanting and hopeful . (Miranda Seymour, Daily Telegraph (five stars)). Guinness is an astute observer and stylish chronicler of landscape, architecture and human character ...she describes her domestic setbacks and achievements with engaging candour . ( Irish Times ).