Running for the Hills
A Family Story
$38.35
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
8 February 2006
Summary
When Jenny and Robert fall in love in the late 1960s they decide to build a new future together, away from the city. They escape to an isolated sheep farm nestled on a mountainside. It has no running water but it is beautiful and rugged. Their young sons can roam wild.
As their flock struggles, money runs low and rain drives in horizontally across the fields, inside the ancient house their marriage begins to unravel. Wilful and romantic, Jenny refuses to abandon her farm. She will bri…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780719565397 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0719565391 |
| Author: | Horatio Clare |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 8 February 2006 |
| Weight: | 207g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 19mm |
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The young family has to face the hardships that small farmers and smallholders endure everywhere - The Times
A tender, eloquent book about love, the power of the land and the price to paid for living out one’s dreams - Sarah DunantA joy … heartening, raw, tender. - John Carey, Sunday TimesTouching, funny and extremely well-written - TelegraphEnchanting … magical … so beautifully written that you almost hold your breath’ - Daily MailA major talent - Marie ClareBeautifully written … crammed with precious details … It should be required reading - GuardianIt is the prose equivalent of a collection of poems by Ted Hughes - or Wordsworth - Sunday TimesAbout The Author
Horatio Clare
Horatio Clare has worked on Front Row and Nightwaves, and produced Radio 3’s The Verb. Born in 1973, Clare has written for The Spectator, the New Statesman, the Guardian, and the Daily Telegraph.
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