THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER' Affectionate evocative illuminating A story of survival
- of a flock a landscape & a disappearing way of life I love this book' Nigel Slater' Triumphant a pastoral for the 21st century' Helen Davies Sunday Times Books of the Year ' The nature publishing sensation of the year unsentimental yet luminous' Melissa Harrison The Times Books of the Year Some people's lives are entirely their own creations James Rebanks' isn't The first son of a shepherd who was the first son of a shepherd himself he & his family have lived & worked in & around the Lake District for generations Their way of life is ordered by the seasons & the work they demand & has been for hundreds of years A Viking would understand the work they do sending the sheep to the fells in the summer & making the hay; the autumn fairs where the flocks are replenished; the gruelling toil of winter when the sheep must be kept alive & the light-headedness that comes with spring as the lambs are born & the sheep get ready to return to the fells