Prenez Garde

Prenez Garde is a 1961 novel by Terence de Vere White.

Prenez Garde is about a nine-year-old boy who lives in a middle-class Irish family.

His parents worry about their boy being exposed to the outside world and so he has never been to school and learns from a beautiful, if not fully qualified, governess.

Of course, living where they do at the time, makes it difficult for them to protect him from talk of the IRA and the Black and Tans.

Unfortunately, this doesn't quite work and in the boy's desire to learn more, he ends up in relying more and more on unreliable and dangerous sources.