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'Helen Cannam's latest novel is set firmly in Weardale and looks at the foot-and-mouth crisis from the inside... There are old farming families and newcomers with dreams, but none of them is immune from the effects of the disease...
'Yet despite the apparently gloomy subject, this is an immensely cheerful book. Lots of human drama and a few happy endings. A community is stronger than its individual members and it all leads to a very satisfactory, optimistic outcome.' Northern Echo 2004
In the spring of 2001, the Reverend Rosalind Maclaren, newly appointed to the country parish of Meadhope with Ashburn, looks forward to fresh challenges in complete contrast with those she faced in her previous urban parish.
Delighting in the beauty of the countryside and the warmth of the people, she is sure she will be happy there - until the dark shadow of disease threatens the whole way of life of her new parishioners.
As Foot and Mouth disease spreads inexorably through the local farms, she has to find entirely new resources to help and support the people around her. And meanwhile, the contagion threatens even those nearest to her.
'Helen Cannam's latest novel is set firmly in Weardale and looks at the foot-and-mouth crisis from the inside... There are old farming families and newcomers with dreams, but none of them is immune from the effects of the disease...
'Yet despite the apparently gloomy subject, this is an immensely cheerful book. Lots of human drama and a few happy endings. A community is stronger than its individual members and it all leads to a very satisfactory, optimistic outcome.' Northern Echo 2004
In the spring of 2001, the Reverend Rosalind Maclaren, newly appointed to the country parish of Meadhope with Ashburn, looks forward to fresh challenges in complete contrast with those she faced in her previous urban parish.
Delighting in the beauty of the countryside and the warmth of the people, she is sure she will be happy there - until the dark shadow of disease threatens the whole way of life of her new parishioners.
As Foot and Mouth disease spreads inexorably through the local farms, she has to find entirely new resources to help and support the people around her. And meanwhile, the contagion threatens even those nearest to her.
287 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 1, 2004
About the author
Helen Cannam
30 books3 followersI have been a writer all my life, at least since I could put pencil to paper. Writing - story-telling - has always been as natural to me as breathing, an essential part of who I am.
Sometimes using the pen names 'Caroline Martin' and ‘Mary Corrigan’, but mostly my own name, I’ve been a published writer since 1980 and a self-published writer since 2012.
For some years I wrote a column for the Northern Echo. I have also given talks to local groups on my writing (and once, at the Bowes Museum, on my early Laura Ashley dress!).
My occasional blog and details of all my books can be found on my website at www.helencannam.com. I also venture onto Twitter from time to time @HelenCannam.
And, yes, I am still writing...
Sometimes using the pen names 'Caroline Martin' and ‘Mary Corrigan’, but mostly my own name, I’ve been a published writer since 1980 and a self-published writer since 2012.
For some years I wrote a column for the Northern Echo. I have also given talks to local groups on my writing (and once, at the Bowes Museum, on my early Laura Ashley dress!).
My occasional blog and details of all my books can be found on my website at www.helencannam.com. I also venture onto Twitter from time to time @HelenCannam.
And, yes, I am still writing...
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