Shortlisted for the Writers Guild Best First Novel Award Selected as a 2017 Book of the Year in the New Statesman After many generations it is now in 1971 Harold who runs Ard Farm. Out on the fells he feels his fathers presence and there is hope that he his grandmother and his Uncle Joe will be able to take the farm forward and prosper. But their way of life is under threat. Farming is undergoing huge change and increasingly harmful intervention. As the years pass and Harold has a son of his own