Dimensions
144 x 222 x 24mm
"After many generations, it is now, in 1971, Harold who runs Ard Farm. When he is out on the fells he feels his father's presence, and there is hope that he, his grandmother and his Uncle Joe will be able to take the farm forward and prosper. But their way of life is under threat. Farming in this country is undergoing huge change and increasingly harmful intervention. As the years pass, and Harold has a son of his own, he strives to keep control of his land, to make a go of it, even while forces he cannot understand are gradually destroying hima This story of a farming family is a hymn both to the landscape of Cumbria and to a disappearing world. Steeped in a deep love and knowledge of this land, its people and the rhythms of their year, it gives an account of the struggle to preserve traditions and beliefs in the face of change. Poetic, beautiful, and with a heart-breaking story, Towards Mellbreak is a quietly bold indictment of the treatment of generations of British men, and an assertion of the power to be found in the rituals we pass down through our families."
