About the book: The Farmer's Wife (2023) is a gorgeous portrait of life at Helen Rebanks’ Lake District farmhouse as well as a heartfelt and honest delve into the truth about the grind and the glory of keeping a home and raising a family today.
This honest and heartwarming memoir offers a portrait of the labour and glory of keeping a home and raising a family. Weaving past and present, Helen Rebanks shares her highs and lows, from the emotional journey to the birth of her first child, and the endless improvisation of each night's dinner, to the dog gobbling up her daughter's freshly-made birthday cake. These are days that have shaped her, and the ways she finds the quiet strength to keep going.
The Farmer's Wife was an instant Sunday Times bestseller (2 September 2023) and is Helen Rebanks' debut.
About the author: Helen Rebanks was born and raised on a farm in the English Lake District. Her family have been farming for many generations. Her parents kept dairy cows, beef cattle and sheep. Her grandfather bred pedigree Clydesdale horses. She has a first class honours degree in Fine Art and she worked in Oxford before becoming a full time farmer’s wife and mother to four children in Cumbria. She regularly cooks for groups that visit the farm using homegrown ingredients and local produce. She and her family work as a tight-knit team that have made their farm globally important with their farming innovations.
Helen runs the farm with her husband James who is also an author: The Shepherd’s Life (2015); Pastoral Song (2020); and The Place of Tides (2024). Together they keep Belted Galloway cattle and Herdwick Sheep on their farm near lake Ullswater. They are passionate advocates for the future of family farms and share their knowledge about regenerative and sustainable farming methods at international events, and on courses they run at their farm.
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