num_pages: 288
description: A memoir of the author's family life on a remote sheep farm in Wales offers a first-person evaluation of the natural world that traces the author's unconventional mother's decision to leave London society to raise sheep in a challenging new home. 30,000 first printing.
language: English
title: Running for the Hills: Growing Up on My Mother's Sheep Farm in Wales
titlecomplete: Running for the Hills: Growing Up on My Mother's Sheep Farm in Wales
genres: Biography, Nature, Nonfiction, Travel, Biography Memoir, Memoir
ratings_count: 295
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Guardian First Book Award
category: Longlist, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Somerset Maugham Award
publisher: Scribner