Running for the Hills

Growing up on My Mother's Sheep Farm in Wales

Edición de la obra Running for the Hills

One summer's day in the late 1960s two young Londoners fell in love with a hill farm in South Wales. But they had almost no money, no idea about sheep, and their marriage was uncertain from the start. Their new home was a mile up the wild mountain, one end dug into its damp flank. It was ancient, cold and unbelievably primitive, with a view like a prospect of Africa. On a fair day it was paradise. But it was a working farm, cut off from the world and condemned - they found out, after they bought it - as 'unfit for human habitation'. This is the story of a passionate adventure; it is also the biography of a relationship, a portrait of an extraordinary way of life and an account of a bewitching childhood. Horatio Clare tells the story of his parents and their mountain farm, and his astonishing upbringing. At the fore is his mother, a wilful romantic, who chooses to make a life on the mountain single-handedly, and to raise her children there. "Running for the Hills" is a vivid memoir of love and struggle in a remote and magical place, where the idyllic and the harrowing are rarely far apart.