“The truth was he couldn’t imagine himself at all, not after the land was gone.”
"I finished The Long Acre at 3.30 a.m. on Saturday morning; not many books can keep me reading that late"
Rob
The Long Acre
By Rachel Francis
Betsy Rose comes from the city and Moss Trant lives on an old hill farm. They have one thing in common, they love the wildest horses the best.
"Writes ... knowing the landscape and the people so that I care, so that I believe in them."
Sir Michael Morpurgo, author.
"Un-put-down-able," Carla Billinghurst, author
"You paint such a rich, intimate picture of farming life and landscape ... the sense of that old, almost mythical story being played out in the background."
Jamie Jauncey, writer, author, for many years a director of the Edinburgh Book Festival
"A perfect book for those interested in the moors, gypsies, horses and farming."
Hollie Cornelius, farmer.
