To School Through the Fields: A Country Childhood Remembered

Alice Taylor. St. Martin's Press, $8.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-312-07239-1

This charming memoir of childhood is a bestseller in Ireland, where Taylor tends the market and post office of Innishannon. (Mar.)

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