ISBN The Sheep Stell book English Hardcover

Memoirs of a Shepherd
The Sheep Stell is Janet White's beautiful and evocative memoir about her life as a shepherd: a lost classic.

'One woman's gloriously lyrical account of life and love as a shepherdess' Mail on Sunday'A book to share or even fight over if necessary' Rosamund Young, author of The Secret Life of Cows'An immensely enjoyable and heartfelt book: it makes you want to run for the hills' The LadyWith an introduction by Colin ThubronAs a child in wartime England, Janet White decided that she wanted to live somewhere wild and supremely beautiful, to inhabit and work the landscape. She imagined searching the whole world for a place, high and remote as a sheep stell, quiet as a monastery, challenging and virginal, untouched and unknown. Turning her back on convention, Janet's desire to carve out her own pastoral Eden has taken her from the Cheviot Hills to Sussex and Somerset, via the savage beauty of rural New Zealand. The Sheep Stell tells the tale of a woman before her time