Running for the Hills |
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| Author:
| Clare, Horatio |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7195-6538-0 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2006 |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton
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| Imprint: | John Murray |
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $45.00 |
Book Description:
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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 -...
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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. From memory, conversations and the diaries of his now-separated parents, Horatio Clare reconstructs their relationship with each other and their mountain farm, and tells the story of 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.