The Farmer's Wife

'A skilfully told memoir of love and loss.' Cumbria Life

'True, unflinching, powerful, lyrical' KATE MOSSE

'Wonderful, inviting, wholesome.' Observer

'Beautiful and very honest.' CAITLIN MORAN

'Quite an achievement.' RAYNOR WINN

'Rebanks does an excellent job of writing women's labour back into the story of the English farm.' Guardian

In this honest and heartwarming memoir, Helen Rebanks invites us to experience life in the Lake District as a farmer's wife. Weaving past and present, Helen shares her highs and lows, from the Cumbrian farmhouse kitchen where she taught herself to cook, to braving the Beast from the East, from the endless improvisation of what to make for tea, to the dog gobbling up her daughter's freshly-made birthday cake. These are the days that have shaped her, and the ways she finds the quiet strength to keep going.

'Compelling . . . without the Mrs Rebankses of the world, everything would fall apart.' Country Life

'Very moving, real and true.' AMY LIPTROT

'Authentic and affecting.' SARAH LANGFORD

'Lovely, warm and real, it made me cry and cook and think. ' ELLA RISBRIDGER

Readers love The Farmer's Wife

'Lovely. . . the book equivalent of getting up before everyone else to enjoy the silence of the day.'

'Evocative and thought-provoking. . . a beautiful, lyrical read that gives voice to the 'pushes and pulls' of everyday life.'

'A beautifully written manifesto for the life she's chosen to lead'

'A beacon of light. . . I've never read a memoir quite like this.'