Author Jamie Blackett arrives home from the Army to take over his family's estate on the Solway Firth in Galloway and finds a rapidly changing countryside. In a humorous and occasionally moving tale he describes how he grapples with the intricacies of farming, conservation and tells the story of founding a pack of foxhounds and a herd of pedigree beef cattle. Part childhood memoir, part biopic of rural life, readers are given an intimate portrait of an estate and transported to a remote and beautiful part of Scotland and acquainted with its wildlife, its people and its peccadilloes. Set over the first two decades of the 21st century through the referenda on Scottish Independence and BREXIT and the hunting ban, the result is a tour d'horizon of the challenges threatening a way of life and an emerging rural philosophy. This book follows in the tradition of countryside classics like the James Herriott books and RF Delderfield's Horseman Riding By trilogy and stands alongside recent successes H is for Hawk and The Shepherd's Life.