SEAL MORNING by Rowena Farre

Description

(The Times Literary Supplement)
“The whole book is a miracle …. This
book is an enchanting one and almost
reconciles one to being a human being.”

(The Observer)

“An Arcadian slice of autobiography
. . . a certain charmer.”

JOHN CONl\ELL (Evening News)
“An astonishing book, a gem of purest
ray serene. . .. This is a wonderful
book: and I mean just that-it is full
of wonder, of a kind at once so joyous
and so strange that I can only be pro-
foundly thankful for and heartened
by it.”

KENNETH ALLSOP (Daily Mail)
“An amateurish, graceful, and essentially
honest book. Rowena Farre does not
romanticise the wilderness, nor brag-
gingly dramatise the toughness of their
Cold Comfort Farm. Yet the plain
fabric of their life through the changing
seasons makes one’s own metropolitan
busy-ness seem a shoddy and pointless
rat-race.”

JOSEPH TAGGART (The Star)

“One of the most enchanting animal
books for years.”

NANCY SPAIN (Daily Express)
“Gave me intense pleasure.”

HOWARD SPRING (Country Ltfe)

“A book that is very fresh and
unaffected. “

(Yorkshire Post)
“An enchanting book, factual, detailed,
keenly observant, and blessedly free
from the poetic prose.”

ROWENA FARRE’S early childhood was
spent in India and though she has not been
back since, she still looks on that country as
a second home. Because her parents thought
it would be better for her health, she was
sent to Britain and left in charge of an aunt
-the Aunt Miriam of the book. They lived
in Buckinghamshire and Kent before going
to Sutherlandshire, and, except for a brief
period in a kindergarten, all her education
was undertaken by her aunt. When her
aunt married and went to live abroad the
author trained as a typist and took a job in
an office, but during the summer months
.she tries to get work which involves being
out of doors. Since leaving Sutherland she
has travelled extensively in Britain and has
lived amongst tinkers and gipsies. She hopes
one day to do some travelling in the East.
Rowena Farre has been writing since a
child for ‘her own pleasure, but apart from
one short article in a country magazine,
Seal Morning is her first published work.

Printed in Great Brita!n

Hardcover

3rd impresseion 1957.

177 pages

Book:  In good preloved condition.   Dust Jacket is in fair condition with tears, staining and spots.

A precious book worthy of a read.