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Annabel Davis-Goff

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Annabel Davis-Goff

Annabel Davis-Goff is the author of The Dower House and This Cold Country, both New York Times Notable Books, and of Walled Gardens, a memoir. Born in County Waterford, Ireland, she lives in New York City.

Annabel Davis-Goff

Books by Annabel Davis-Goff

by Annabel Davis-Goff

It is 1915, the First World War has just entered its second year, and, in Ireland, Nationalists are edging toward revolution. Often lonely and homesick, living in a rigid old-fashioned household where propriety is all-important, eight-year-old Alice Moore pieces together the world around her from overheard conversations, servants' gossip, and her own quiet observations.