The First Day of Friday

by Honor Tracy

The first day of Friday; a novel

191 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1963

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.

Reviews

[Aaron Badgley · Rating 4 out of 5]

An interesting, and never boring book. It is hard to describe exactly what it is about, but it is worth a read.

[Bre Teschendorf · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is another book about English aristocracy living in Ireland. Not as funny as "The Straight and Narrow Path" and with a rather sad ending.
It has one of the most humorous sermons in it that I've ever had the pleasure to read and very interesting characters. I don't think I learned anything from this book but I did enjoy it. Very quirky.

[Joanne · Rating 3 out of 5]

An Irish chuckle...fun.