HELEN REBANKS
FABER & FABER - 9780571370603
True, unflinching, powerful, lyrical Kate Mosse
Its quite an achievement to shine a light of truth on the often idealised, always understated, role of the farmers wife.RAYNOR WINN
Wonderful, inviting, wholesome.Observer
Very moving, real and true.AMY LIPTROT
Enchanting, funny, fearless. . . a luminously beautiful memoir.Spectator
Beautiful and very honest.CAITLIN MORAN
Authentic and affecting.SARAH LANGFORD
Lovely, warm and real, it made me cry and cook and think. ELLA RISBRIDGER
A portrait of life at Helen Rebanks Lake District farmhouse that beautifully captures the unsung work of keeping a home and raising a family.
As dawn breaks on the farm, Helen Rebanks makes a mug of tea, relishing the few minutes of quiet before the house stirs. Within the hour the sounds of her husband, James, and their four children will fill the kitchen. There are also six sheepdogs, two ponies, 20 chickens, 50 cattle and 500 sheep to care for. Helen is a farmers wife. Hers is a story that is rarely told, despite being one we think we know.
Weaving past and present, Helen shares the days that have shaped her. This is the truth of those days: from steering the family through the Beast from the East and the local authority planning committee, to finding the quiet strength to keep going, when supper is yet to be started, another delivery man has assumed he needs to speak to the man of the house, and she would rather punch a cushion than plump it.
This beautifully-illustrated memoir, which takes place across one day at the farm, offers a chance to think about where our food comes from and who puts it on the table. Helens recipes, lists and gentle wisdom helps us to get through our days, whatever they throw at us.
Readers love The Farmers Wife
Lovely. . . the book equivalent of getting up before everyone else to enjoy the silence of the day.
Evocative and thought-provoking. . . a beautiful, lyrical read that gives voice to the pushes and pulls of everyday life.
A beautifully written manifesto for the life shes chosen to lead
A beacon of light. . . Ive never read a memoir quite like this.
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