Tea for One

· Bolinda · Narrated by Jennifer Fitzgerald
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Many of us spend the later years of life living solo when children have grown up and moved on. Others choose this lifestyle. We get used to being on our own while also enjoying family and communal occasions. But 2020 brought new challenges to this solo lifestyle. We rose to the first challenge thinking that it would all be over in a matter of weeks. But no. Instead came a series of on-again off-again lockdowns of different levels. This was a new, radical, solitary living experience which was really going to test our endurance and resilience. Would the coping skills we had already acquired see us through? But this was more a hermitage existence than we had ever experienced and it would really test our mettle. Then, gradually, a realisation dawned that maybe there were things to be learnt from this unique situation? Might we discover a new understanding and appreciation of things previously ignored? Alice Taylor began to wonder how best to handle this new, solitary experience, and to document her progress though this most extraordinary year. This is her journey.
Many of us spend the later years of life living solo when children have grown up and moved on. Others choose this lifestyle. We get used to being on our own while also enjoying family and communal occasions. But 2020 brought new challenges to this solo lifestyle. We rose to the first challenge th...

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Alice Taylor is a bestselling Irish author who lives in the village of Innishannon in County Cork, in a house attached to the local supermarket and post office. Her first book, To School Through the Fields, was published in 1988. It was an immediate success and quickly became the biggest selling book ever published in Ireland. Taylor has written nearly twenty books since then, largely exploring her beloved village and the ways of life in rural Ireland, all of which have been successful and have sold internationally. She has also written poetry and fiction; her first novel, The Woman of the House, was an immediate bestseller. Her most recent book is Weathering Storms (2025), another work of memoir.

Jennifer Fitzgerald is a multi-award-winning Southern Irish voice artist, character actor and audio producer. She has produced hundreds of audiobooks for publishers such as Harper Audio, Bolinda, BBC, Hachette, Audible and W.F. Howes. As a voice actor, she has worked on video games such as BAFTA–nominated Harp Song and narrated audiobooks like the Earphones Award–winning And Life Lights Up by Alice Taylor, The Ghostlights by Gráinne Murphy, Earphones Award–winner The Ministry For the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson and The Visitor by Zoe Miller.

Alice Taylor is a bestselling Irish author who lives in the village of Innishannon in County Cork, in a house attached to the local supermarket and post office. Her first book, To School Through the Fields, was published in 1988. It was an immediate success and quickly became the biggest selling ...

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