And the Days Grow Short
A story of love, tragedy and courage, set on a remote Devon farm in the foothills of Dartmoor . . .
George Tennant is a middle-aged man and a widower. He is a Londoner now retired and living in a large house on the edge of Dartmoor. Heather Maunder, a farmer’s daughter, is 25 years his junior – and very much of a different generation. We learn of their meeting, their mutual love, their subsequent marriage and then their life together.
It is a life strewn with struggle as George joins his young wife on her family’s farm located in the foothills of the Moor, with much of their livestock grazing on the rugged Moor itself.
We follow George’s valiant, though not always successful, efforts to master the diverse problems which come the way of a Devonshire hill farmer – and his reliance, ever increasing, on the tenacity, positivity and sheer courage of his remarkable wife throughout all the family problems that such a relationship encounters.
It is a story of triumph over adversity and fickle fate and, ultimately, over the tragedies which Dartmoor, in particular, chooses to thrust upon them.
ISBN: 9781852000943
Size: 217x140mm
Binding: hardback
Length: 212pp
About the author:
Ted Sherrell
Born and educated in West Devon, Ted Sherrell has had an interesting and most diverse working career; past work including being a civil servant, newspaper reporter, fireman, factory worker, door-to-door salesman, insurance agent, shopkeeper, proofreader and as a business adviser calling principally on farms in Devon and Cornwall.
A farmer’s son, he has worked amongst and been around the farming and rural communities of Devonshire for most of his life. He draws greatly upon this background – plus his various working experiences – when writing his novels and short stories.
In past years he gained an Honours Degree in History through a correspondence course and, as well as his writing career, Ted Sherrell was for many years involved in local government as a member of Tavistock Town Council, where in 2013 he was made the first ever Freeman of Tavistock. He has also been a member of West Devon Borough Council and is a Justice of the Peace.
