Chip Chop Cherry

A haunting and often hilarious warts and all account of growing up in a small rural community near the seaside town of Bray,County Wicklow in the days before television;of sheep''s brains for Sunday dinner and senna pods everySaturday to keep you ''regular'';of the curious goings-on in the winter of 1953/54 during aseven month stay a Dublin hospital;of the excitement among the young at the arrival ofthe sensational new music called Rock-n-Roll, and thecomically desperate measures taken to keep adolescenthormones in harness.A wonderfully evocative trip into 1950s Ireland.Praise for Wicklow Gold:"I loved this book...The author is to be congratulated. This is athoroughly enjoyable novel."
Anna Cooke, BOOKS IRELAND