Alice Taylor: The Nana [2022] hardback CGRAP He was a God once

He was a God once

slightly embarrassed by the sensation

using her unique stream-of-consciousness technique to explore the inner lives of her characters

search for a fate that they might fashion by their own will

Alice Taylor: The Nana [2022] hardback CGRAP He was a God onceThe Irish nana is a repository of family history, memory and lore. Sometimes, like the Italian nonna, she is also a 'walking cookbook', carrying the old knowledge of how things were best done. Alice's own grandmothers, Nana Taylor and Nana Ballyduane, were the first generation after the Great Famine, born in the 1860s. These women taught their families the Irish traditions and habits of homemaking that survived for centuries, and are now almost gone.