Three Years in Orange County – Gill McEvoy
ISBN: 9781788642095
£11.99
1970 and Gill’s husband, Finbar, receives a Fullbright Scholarship to do research at Duke University, North Carolina. They leave Dublin to live among fellow academics but the constant barbecues, parties and suppers soon pall. So they rent a rural wooden farmhouse on a ‘haze of romantic adventure’.
Soon Gill is growing vegetables, milking cows, churning butter, quilting, training horses, surviving termites and getting to know neighbours who speak almost the same language in a very different culture.
Written with warmth and sparkling wit, Three Years in Orange County is an insightful, immersive read.
Author biography
Gill McEvoy is a Hawthornden Fellow. Her first pamphlet, Uncertain Days, (Happenstance Press 2006) earned a special mention in the PBS bulletin. Her third pamphlet, The First Telling, (Happenstance Press 2014) won the 2015 Michael marks Award. She has two full collections from Cinnamon Press: The Plucking Shed, 2010 and Rise, 2013 as well as the award-winning pamphlet, Summer to Summer, Looking. Also two collections from Hedgehog Press: Are You Listening? 2020, and Selected Poems, 2024. She lives in Devon, where she runs a monthly poetry reading group, and is a regular member of Company of Poets in Totnes. Gill cares deeply about wildlife and works with a group called Bee-wild, planting flowers and shrubs around her village for the benefit of bees and other pollinators, and thereby giving pleasure also to passers-by.