Dimensions
140 x 224 x 28mm
This is a story of a passionate adventure; it is also the biography of a relationship, a portrait of an extraordinary way of life and an account of a bewitching childhood. From memory, conversations andthe diaries of his now-separated parents, Horatio Clare reconstructs their relationship with each other and their mountain farm, and tells the story of his 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. But his parents had almost no money, no idea about sheep, and their marriage was uncertain from the start. Their new home was a mile up in the wild mountain, one end dug into it's damp flank 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 - they found out, after they bought it - as 'unfit for human habitation'. 'Running For The Hills' is a vivid memoir of love and struggle in a remote and magical place.
