--- product_id: 61523739 title: "Woodbrook" brand: "david thomson" price: "$30.63" currency: USD in_stock: true reviews_count: 8 url: https://www.desertcart.us/products/61523739-woodbrook store_origin: US region: United States of America --- # Woodbrook **Brand:** david thomson **Price:** $30.63 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Woodbrook by david thomson - **How much does it cost?** $30.63 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.us](https://www.desertcart.us/products/61523739-woodbrook) ## Best For - david thomson enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted david thomson brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Woodbrook ## Images ![Woodbrook - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51It5W-8rlL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ wonderful book *by O***O on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 3 March 2010* wonderful book.Stays with you long after finishing it.It's set in the 30's and 40's in Co. Roscommon, in the rural west of Ireland. The locale is Woodbrook, a house and farm located between Boyle and Carrick-on-Shannon. The house is occupied by the Kirkwoods, a declining Anglo-Irish family, once wealthy and powerful, now living in a poorly maintained house and chased by creditors. Other characters in the book are the neighbouring local Irish, who work on the farm.The book is about loss; firstly, the doomed platonic love affair beteeen the author (in his teens and twenties) and Phoebe, his student, who is 7 years younger, and secondly, the inevitable decay of the house and lands.The book was written 30 years after the event and so is somewhat rose-tinted. The author admitted that he burned his notebooks in Woodbrook in a fit of jealousy, when Phoebe went off with a friend of the author, and so he had to rely on memory when writing the book. Naturally, as he admits, many of the un-pleasant aspects were forgotten.The book reminded me, in parts, of McEwan's "Atonement" and somewhat less of Sebald's " Austerlitz" but I think "Woodbrook" was superior.The book gives one insight of how the Anglo-Irish families lived between the two world wars. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Woodbrook - The story of the Kirkwood of Co. Roscommon Family *by M***N on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 5 March 2014* The book was recommended to me by someone who was researching some of our ancestors from Co. Roscommon, Ireland. A distant Frazer cousin, Edward, married Mary Kirkwood, a daughter of Thomas Kirkwood of Woodbrook in 1834. Although David Thomson comes over as something of a 'wimp', he was, undoubtedly a very good historian. 'Woobrook' paints a fascinating story of the gradual decline of a prominent Anglo-Irish family in the 19th and 20th centuries. The author pays particular attention to the effects of the Penal Laws and the Famine on the Catholic families who worked on the estate.. A good, and from a genealogist's point of view, a very useful read.(My copy of the book was an Amazon Verified Purchase.) ### ⭐⭐⭐ A genial brush with rural Irish social culture *by L***P on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 1 May 2015* As other reviewers have indicated this was possibly a good book for those wishing for a genial brush with rural Irish social culture, but personally I found myself bogged down in a mire of too much historical patter.The cover blurb promised intrigue: an 18 year-old live-in private tutor strikes up a relationship with Phoebe his eleven-year-old pupil, and a loving bond grows between them.But for me, there were too many distracting deviations relating to Irish history and to seemingly inconsequential other family members. Only when the social customs impinged directly upon the author did the story become absorbing. Until the final two chapters we were never allowed to glimpse the tender moments hinted at in the advertised description.Being based on a real-life experience I guess too much truth may have resulted in indelible incrimination for the author, who was later to become an award-winning writer for one of his subsequent publications.Other comparable novels consider similar age-divergent relationships more explicitly. Compared with the five-star  Sudie , Tideland , The Belvedere Field (Vanguard) , or  Still She Haunts Me , I can only award this three stars. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.us/products/61523739-woodbrook](https://www.desertcart.us/products/61523739-woodbrook) --- *Product available on Desertcart United States of America* *Store origin: US* *Last updated: 2026-05-18*