Frances Brand

Back of Beyond (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Subtle shades of landscape and light changing throughout the year; ravens tumbling overhead and returning swallows gathering mud to build their nests .... all woven into a humorous yet heart-rending account of life entwined with nature.

This tale of running a bed and breakfast in the Shropshire Hills, reveals a learning curve of mistakes and challenges set against the ever-present beauty of the natural world, until the cruel intervention of motor neurone disease darkens the idyll.

An inspirational affirmation of life and intimate engagement with nature .... which reveals its own complex and powerful character. Small cameos of wild things are sharply observed, written with real love and illustrated with exquisite drawings.

Living with the Covid pandemic, climate change and deteriorating health, not to mention an unforgettable kaleidoscope of two, four and six legged guests each episode of this rural life is faced with wry humour, courage and resourcefulness, deepening the sense of life's value.

Those who care for the natural world and our environment will warm to this profoundly moving story.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Frances Brand
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781916270855
• Artikelnr.: 73429321

Autorenporträt

Frances Brand lives in Shropshire, in the west of England among the glorious countryside of the Marches where a crow or raven can fly quickly over the border into Wales. She gave up a career in journalism to open her hilltop home as a bed and breakfast and gain more freedom and time to write.

Her last job was editing a farming newspaper, working closely with farmers and others involved in agriculture which revealed the problems and vicissitudes of 21st-century farming.

She lives a comparatively old-fashioned way of life, in touch with the natural world which so many people have left behind. Her passion for nature, the landscape and the power of the elements is often reflected in her writing.

She says people don't expect a guest house owner to be a writer or the other way round but it often gives a fascinating insight into human behaviour and can touch off many trains of thought. There are some guests who spark immediate empathy while others sometimes just don't get the place at all.

Her life is also kept busy with dogs and horses to care for.