false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175453553m/515784.jpg 515784 1 Before Horatio Clare was born, his parents fell in love with a place -- a remote sheep farm in Wales, physically and in every other way far from the <P>lives they were forging as young professionals in London. The farm was high up a mountain, nearly impassable in winter. The neighbors were surly, or perhaps just unused to foreigners. But the setting was breathtaking, and soon it changed Jenny's and Robert's lives.<P>What began as the somewhat conventional dream of a young, ambitious couple from London looking for a weekend home quickly became a different vision. Horatio's mother, romantic and tenacious, found it impossible to leave the fierce and beautiful land. She abandoned her job, her social world, and eventually her marriage to raise her two sons in the company of a herd of sheep, a few dogs, and the badgers, foxes, and mice who had prior claim to her new world. <P>While other boys were going to films and listening to rock music, Horatio was weaning ewes and watching weather and surviving the furor of irascible neighbors. His childhood was marked by wonder and joy, and it is that wonderment that he bestows upon the reader as he recounts the story of the ancient, sometimes brutal, way of life on a hill farm. This wise book is a moving tribute to his mother, both beautiful and brave.<P><P> 503729 2006 Running for the Hills: Growing Up on My Mother's Sheep Farm in Wales total:17|5:4|4:5|3:7|2:1|1:0| 17 63 33 2 3 0 false false Fri Jun 20 08:32:13 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 20 08:33:43 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Mon Aug 13 00:55:04 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 13 00:56:34 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Fri Oct 23 12:48:54 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 23 12:48:54 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Oct 05 12:03:28 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 12:03:28 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Oct 05 09:54:42 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 09:54:42 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Mon Sep 28 21:01:44 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 28 21:01:44 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sun Sep 06 11:54:06 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 06 11:54:06 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Aug 15 09:52:32 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 15 09:52:32 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Aug 07 13:17:07 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 07 13:17:07 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Aug 06 15:53:53 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 06 15:53:53 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Jul 24 01:42:31 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 01:42:36 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Jul 05 06:29:03 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 05 06:29:03 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Mon Nov 24 06:41:29 -0800 2008 Thu Sep 25 11:51:39 -0700 2008 Mon Nov 24 06:41:29 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Mon Jun 09 17:43:18 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 10 11:32:10 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri May 23 11:04:36 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 14 07:02:19 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Mon May 12 13:31:02 -0700 2008 Mon May 12 13:31:02 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Sun May 04 19:03:34 -0700 2008 Sun May 04 19:03:34 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Wed Apr 30 13:26:20 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 30 13:26:35 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Mon Apr 28 11:49:17 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 28 11:49:17 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Wed May 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 27 20:37:20 -0700 2008 Wed May 14 10:51:35 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=515784