The Crocodile by the Door: The Story Of A House, A Farm & A Family by Selina Guinness

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The Crocodile by the Door by Selina Guinness is a remarkable, compelling and moving memoir of a farm, a family and a home.

When Selina Guinness and her partner Colin, both young academics, moved in with Selina’s uncle Charles, an elderly bachelor, they had no idea what the coming years held for them: a crash course in farming, tense discussions with helicopter-borne property developers, human tragedy, and the challenge of dragging a quasi-feudal estate at the edge of Dublin into the twenty-first century.

The Crocodile by the Door – a dazzling memoir that will appeal to fans of Edmund de Waal, William Fiennes and Richard Benson’s The Farm – tells this remarkable story.