Publisher's Synopsis
This third volume of Patricia Craig's trilogy or memoir - following her celebrated Asking for Trouble and A Twisted Root: Ancestral Entanglements in Ireland - takes its title from Louis MacNeice: "My diehard countrymen like drayhorses/drag their ruin behind them". A memoir of her upbringing in Belfast and life in London, from the 1960s onwards - but with scenes from childhood, adolescence, and later. The atmosphere of London is contrasted with that of Belfast.
