Title: The Shepherd’s
Life
Author: James Rebanks
Genre: Memoir – 636.30092
Read by: Bryan Dick
Publisher/Date: McMillan Audio/2015
Dates listened to: 7/13/17 – 7/18/17
CDs/Hours: 6/7.5
IBSN: 978-1-4272-7519-6
Set amidst Beatrix Potter and William Wordsworth’s Lake
District of Northern England, James Rebanks tells the story of his life and
that of his father and grandfather. All
shepherds, this family has been in the business for generations – sending their
sheep to the fells (high moorlands) in the summer; making hay; replenishing their
flocks at autumn fairs; keeping the sheep alive during the grueling winters and
helping the ewes to birth their lambs in springtime. I got caught up in James’s life – how he
hated school yet went on to Oxford, his disagreement and subsequent
reconciliation with his father about life, his work ethic regardless of the
circumstances. He took everything in
stride.
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