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James Rebanks is the Herdwick Shepherd, whose account of shepherding has a strong following on Twitter. His family have farmed in the same area for six hundred years. Bryan Dick is an English actor, best known for playing Ernie Wise in Eric and Ernie, the BBC's BAFTA-winning biopic of Morecambe and Wise. He has appeared on television in his shows such as Wolf Hall, Midsomer Murders and Shameless.
'A remarkable achievement ... Utterly unsentimental, The Shepherd's Life is, nevertheless, profoundly moving.' -- The Financial Times 'A wonderfully detailed and candid account of a life that is both individual and typical of this role in rural society ... told with perfect pitch, in prose that flows as easily as speech, cleaves hungrily to the particular, and shifts without strain between the workaday and the imaginative.' -- The Guardian 'Absorbing, often funny, and beautifully written ... a testament to the importance of maintaining a connection to the land.' -- The Observer 'An unforgettable survivor's book that raises important questions, not least about education ... one of the most truthful depictions of contemporary rural life that I have read.' -- The Independent 'Exceptional ... Rebanks's way with words is akin to that of that of an expert shearer with the clippers – swift, deft, skilled – and the resulting prose is lean, vivid, tough and handsome. I loved his book. It is one to restore faith in writing and the business of publishing – a story not like any other, told from the inside by someone whose passion for his subject lights up almost every sentence.' -- Literary Review
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