Publisher's Synopsis
One summer's day in the late 1960s, two young Londoners fell in love with a hill farm in South Wales. They had almost no money, no idea about sheep and their tempestuous relationship would soon feel the strain. Their new home was a mile up the wild mountain - it was ancient, cold and unbelievably primitive, with a view like a prospect of Africa. On a fair day it was paradise. But it was a working farm, cut off from the world and condemned, so they found out later, as "unfit for human habitation". From memory, conversations and the diaries of his now-separated parents, Horatio Clare reconstructs their relationships with each other and their mountain farm, and telling the story of his own astonishing upbringing. At the fore is his mother, a wilful romantic, who chooses to make a life on the mountain single-handedly and to raise her children there.
