The shepherd's life - James Rebanks

THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER

Some
people's lives are entirely their own creations. James Rebanks' isn't.
The first son of a shepherd, who was the first son of a shepherd
himself, he and his family have lived and worked in and around the Lake
District for generations. Their way of life is ordered by the seasons
and the work they demand, and has been for hundreds of years. A Viking
would understand the work they do: sending the sheep to the fells in the
summer and making the hay; the autumn fairs where the flocks are
replenished; the gruelling toil of winter when the sheep must be kept
alive, and the light-headedness that comes with spring, as the lambs are
born and the sheep get ready to return to the fells.