THE HOME PLACE

Brian Leyden's best selling memoir The Home Place has been reissued. It is available in a new print on demand edition from amazon.com and as a downloadable e-book. This updated edition contains a new foreword and end chapter called No Meadows in Manhattan. Acclaimed Irish writer Joseph O'Connor say the Home Place is "An absolutely beautiful piece of work". And there isn’t a single word out of place in this wonderful book.  In a richly detailed evocation of family life and the place where he grew up, Brian Leyden walks us through his world and that of his neighbours and his community, casting a warm eye on its customs and history, beliefs and traditions and how they all fit together.  With its lyrical balancing of loss and humour the the Home Place is a book that will stay with you long after reading it. An Irish classic.