This is a warm, entertaining and moving book which will do much to renew faith in farmers and farming, as well as in human nature generally. Hardships are not glossed over (bereavement, the anguish and slaughter during the Foot and Mouth epidemic, for example), but Jean writes just as eloquently of the joys as she does of the sorrows of life in the beautiful, remote spot they inhabit. No reader can fail to be full of admiration for the resolutely cheerful Browns, or to care deeply about them.