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The Dower House ReviewThis novel is a wonderful glimpse of the vanishing world of the Anglo-Irish. It is the story of Molly Hassard, who grows up first at Fern Hill, a beautiful but slowly decaying dower hose, and then at Dromore, her uncle's island estate, to which Fern Hill belongs. Molly and her more privileged cousin Sophie are forced as they grow older to make choices between the romantic genteel poverty of the Anglo-Irish lifestyle in which they were raised and the comfort, prosperity and hard practicalities represented by life in London. Because they are women, and it is the 1950's and 60's, their choices are really about they men they choose to marry. Annabel Davis-Goff writes tenderly and evocatively about a disappearing way of life. One of the best things about this book is that Molly is completely aware that her childhood belongs to a past that will never be recovered, and she, like the reader, is enchanted by all of it -- the houses and the way they were run, the gardens, the parties, the local characters, and perhaps most of all, the proud and impractical Anglo-Irish themselves, represented most vividly by Molly's father, Tibby, and her aunt Belinda, and embodied in Molly's eyes in Desmond Paget. If you like novels of England-between-the-wars (e.g., Angela Thirkell), England-during-WWII (e.g., Elizabeth Jane Howard's "Cazalet Chronicles"), and England-after-the-war through the 60's and 70's (e.g. Rosamunde Pilcher), you will enjoy this well-written, moving book. I liked it so well that I have ordered Davis-Goff's memoir, "Walled Gardens: Scenes from an Anglo-Irish Childhood," from Amazon.co.uk (it's out-of-print in the US).The Dower House Overview

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