A Delicate Wildness: The Life and Loves of David Thomson, 1914-1988

by Julian Vignoles

David Thompson was a Scottish writer, folklorist and radio producer, who became an honorary Irishman. His life took a defining turn when as a student of history at Oxford, he came to County Roscommon in the early 1930's as tutor to an Anglo-Irish family, the Kirkwoods. He fell in love with his charge, Phoebe, the daughter of the house, and returned to London in 1939, becoming a radio producer with the BBC, where he spent the remainder of his working...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843516330
• ISBN13: 9781843516330
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Lilliput Press
• Length: 275 Pages