This third volume of Patricia Craig's trilogy or memoir - following her celebrated Asking for Trouble and A Twisted Root: Ancestral Entanglements in Ireland - takes its title from Louis MacNeice: "My diehard countrymen like drayhorses/drag their ruin behind them". A memoir of her upbringing in Belfast and life in London, from the 1960s onwards - but with scenes from childhood, adolescence, and later. The atmosphere of London is contrasted with that of Belfast.
| ISBN: | 9781739353766 |
| Publication date: | 1st February 2025 |
| Author: | Patricia Craig |
| Publisher: | The Irish Pages Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 275 pages |
| Genres: |
Memoirs |