The Straight and Narrow Path

honor tracy

When an anthropologist, on holiday in an Irish village, contributes an article on local customs to an English newspaper he is unprepared for the results.

Genres fictionirelandhumor

245 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1,1956

This edition

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
Published: June 1, 1956 by Random House
ISBN: 9789997410344
ASIN: 9997410343
Language: English

About the author

Honor Tracy is the pseudonym of Lilbush Wingfield, who was a British writer, born at Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk.

Tracy joined the British Women's Auxiliary Air Force from 1939 to 1941, working in the intelligence département, then she was attached to the British Ministry of Information during the Second World War, from 1941 to 1945, as a Japanese specialist. She worked for The Observer newspaper as a columnist and as a long-time foreign correspondent. She wrote also for The Sunday Times and for the British Broadcasting Corporation. Tracy is best known as a travel writer. Her novels satirize British-Irish relations and Ireland itself with wit and occasionally bitterness. Her best-known novels are The Straight and Narrow Path (1956), The Quiet End of Evening (1972), and The Ballad of Castle Reef (1979). Her best-known travel book is Winter in Castille (1973).

She settled in Achill Island, Co. Mayo, Ireland and died in 1989 in Oxford, England.