Sheep Stell - Hardcover

White, Janet

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1472128605 ISBN 13: 9781472128607

Publisher: Constable, 2018

Synopsis

Despite coming from a middle-class, academic family, Janet White dreamed of living and working somewhere wild and beautiful, a place high and remote as a sheep stell, quiet as a monastery, challenging and virginal. Here, she describes how she followed her ambition to be a farmer, from her first job as a dairymaid to owning her own sheep farm on a remote island in New Zealand. Originally published in 1991, and reissued with a new introduction by Colin Thubron.

About this title

About the Author:

After seventy lambings, one marriage and a big family, Janet White is now in her eighties and continues to farm in the West Country, aided by a quad bike and her devoted Border Collie, Moss.

Review:

A beautifully written memoir of a quietly courageous life. My admiration for its author grew on every page: her strength of purpose, her resolve, and her clear, straightforward love of solitude, space and freedom that carried her - and carried me - around the world and back * Nick Hunt, author of Where the Wild Winds Are * Janet writes delightfully of her unique life story and ultimately tranquil life on her West Country farm. But that idyllic lifestyle belies the steely determination that led her to the other side of the world and unforeseen drama, as she pursued her dream of shepherding * David Kennard, author of A Shepherd's Watch * Janet White's book should be compulsory reading * John Barrington, author of Red Sky at Night * Utterly enchanting; a fascinating story, beautifully written * Penny Junor, author of The Duchess: The Untold Story * An extraordinary memoir . . . The Sheep Stell is pure joy, one of the most moving books I've read in a long time * Philip Marsden, author of Rising Ground * A book to share or even fight over if necessary * Rosamund Young, author of The Secret Life of Cows * This is a strange and lovely book, and quiet as it is, it makes you gasp at the profoundly lived quality of the life it so modestly describes * Jenny Diski * A hymn to country solitude, lyrical, unpretentious and deeply felt * Colin Thubron * Intense insight -- Helen Brown * Daily Mail * A fascinating read that will move and inspire with every turn of the page * Countryside * Lovers of the countryside will enjoy this moving, quietly written account of a young woman's adventures as she made her way in the farming world . . . An immensely enjoyable and heartfelt book: it makes you want to run for the hills -- Rebecca Wallersteiner * The Lady * One woman's gloriously lyrical account of life and love as a shepherdess * Mail on Sunday *

About this edition

• Publisher: Constable
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1472128605
• ISBN 13: 9781472128607
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288