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About the Book

A haunting and often hilarious warts and all account of growing up in a small rural community near the seaside town of Bray, County Wicklow in the days before television;

of sheep's brains for Sunday dinner and senna pods every Saturday to keep you 'regular';

of the curious goings-on in the winter of 1953/54 during a seven month stay a Dublin hospital;

of the excitement among the young at the arrival of the sensational new music called Rock-n-Roll, and the comically desperate measures taken to keep adolescent hormones in harness.

Praise for Wicklow Gold:

"I loved this book...The author is to be congratulated. This is a thoroughly enjoyable novel."

About the Author

Ray Cranley was born in 1944 at Windgates, between the two seaside towns of Bray and Greystones in County Wicklow, Ireland.

A few years later he moved with his parents to Ballywaltrim at the other side of Little Sugarloaf Mountain, where he spent most of his childhood.

In 1979 he returned to the old family home at Windgates where he continues to live with his wife, Jacinta, and their children.

He is a founder member of the Bray Cualann Historical Society and has contributed articles on local history to the society's journals. His novel, "Wicklow Gold", was published in 1999.