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And Life Lights Up :Moments that Matter
And Life Lights Up :Moments that Matter
hardback
Published:
15 October, 2018
Description
Let Alice Taylor encourage you to live in the now, to really live your experiences and to treasure the special moments in your life.
With Alice as a guide, explore the steps and ways to live a conscious life and focus on the goodness of the world around us. Alice's beautiful and captivating writing is an act of mindfulness in itself, and she shares her favourite moments in life, encouraging us to ponder our own. Alice also inspires the reader to be attentive to the here and now and embrace moments as they arise.
A beautiful and enchanting book by a bestselling and celebrated author.
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781788490580 |
| ISBN10 | 1788490584 |
| Number Of Pages | 208 |
| Item Weight | 448 g |
| Product Dimensions | 135 x 216 x 21 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | O'Brien Press Ltd |
| Format | hardback |
Media Reviews
heartwarming
-- Dungarvan Observera favourite down the years, Alice Taylor guides us through the steps and ways to live a conscious life and focus on the goodness of the world around us
-- Belfast TelegraphLet Alice Taylor encourage you to live in the now, to really live your experiences and to treasure the special moments in your life
-- Mummypages.ielovely book … All about 'Moments that Matter.' We all have them but are we grateful for them? Alice Taylor can be our guide.
-- Bibi BaskinAlice's beautiful and captivating writing is an act of mindfulness in itself, and she shares her favourite moments in life, encouraging us to ponder our own. Alice also inspires the reader to be attentive to the here and now and embrace moments as they arise. A beautiful and enchanting book by a bestselling and celebrated author
-- Mummypagesa great book to read
-- Weekly ObserverEver since she published her first book, To School Through The Fields, she has become one of our best loved writers ... encourages us all to treasure what we have
-- RTE1’s Today ShowIrish writer Alice Taylor offers a heartwarming meditation on the beauty to be found in the world around us. Taylor's natural optimism makes voice pro Jennifer Fitzgerald a wonderful choice to perform this inspiring writing. Her relaxed tone and audible love of Taylor's message conjure memorable conversations we've had with close friends--warm interactions that touched our souls. The audiobook invites us to recognize the goodness within ourselves and to let it guide the way we look at our friends, as well as the details of our surroundings. With charming vignettes set in rural Ireland, this audiobook overflows with gratitude and infectious wonder. Taylor's peaceful approach to life, captured fully in Jennifer Fitzgerald's appealing performance, will remind listeners that joy in life starts with the way we approach it
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Author's Bio
Alice Taylor lives in the village of Innishannon in County Cork, in a house attached to the local supermarket and post office. Her first book, To School Through the Fields, was published in 1988. It was an immediate success and quickly became the biggest selling book ever published in Ireland. Alice has written nearly twenty books since then, largely exploring her beloved village and the ways of life in rural Ireland. She has also written poetry and fiction: her first novel, The Woman of the House, was an immediate bestseller. Most recently, she wrote a children's picture book with her daughter Lena Angland, called Ellie and the Fairy Door. Emma Byrne is a graphic designer and artist. She is a graduate of Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design. She has won numerous awards for her design including The IDI (Irish Design Institute) Graduate Designer of the Year, the IDI Promotional Literature Award for her work on Brown Morning, and a Children’s Books Ireland Bisto Merit Award for her work on Something Beginning With P: New Poems from Irish Poets. She has illustrated many books, including Best-Loved Oscar Wilde, Best-Loved Yeats, The Most Beautiful Letter in the World by Karl O’Neill, a special edition of Ulysses by James Joyce, and A Terrible Beauty by Mairéad Ashe Fitzgerald. Her other books are Irish Thatch and, with Eoin O’Brien, Best-Loved Irish Ballads.