The Yorkshire Shepherdess

She is a farmer's wife and shepherdess, living with her husband Clive and seven children at Ravenseat, a 2000 acre sheep hill farm at the head of Swaledale in North Yorkshire. In this narrative, she describes how the rebellious girl from Huddersfield who always wanted to be a shepherdess achieved her dreams. The book is full of amusing anecdotes and unforgettable characters, taking us from fitting in with the locals to managing motherhood, from handling the demands of livestock to raising a large family in such a rural backwater.

Amanda also evokes the peace of winter, when they can be cut off by snow without electricity or running water, the happiness of spring and the lambing season, and the backbreaking tasks of summertime haymaking and sheepshearing inspiring us all to look at the countryside and those who work there with new appreciation.