Title: As Luck Would Have It
Description: The story of a young married couple unemployed in the mid 1930's - who took up farming, first on the Copeland Island and then in the County Down Ards. Of how they lost money and found happiness; of pigs and babies, evacuees, refugees, builders, plumbers, editors, landgirls, Irish Moilies, Civil Defence workers; of how they were never free from worry and yet found in farming the most deeply satisfying life the modern world can offer. All this and more, Mabel Campbell tells with zest, in a story covering ten years of hard work, humour and quiet adventure. 

The Portadown News wrote "It is a thrilling narrative, full of courage and determination, which evokes admiration and praise and in it sadness, humour and laughter intermingle. It is not only the record of two people's efforts to battle with nature; the neighbours are there in profusion and even the dogs and livestock one finds on a farm are given their rightful place in a work of this nature. The readers attention is gripped from the outset." 

R. H. from Cincinati (USA) said "I absolutely loved this book. It is such an historical gem - and we think life is tough now! I really treasured reading it." 

P.H. from Belfast (N.I.) said "The thing that really fascinated me is the fact they apparently mixed with Roman Catholics in everyday life - unheard of in our sphere of living in Belfast."
Subjects: Ulsterwoman, farming, WWII, Copeland, Portaferry, Ards, Refugees
Places: Northern Ireland, Copeland Islands, Ards Peninsula, Portaferry
People: Lisette Mabel Heron Campbell, Philip Arthur Campbell
Time periods: 1930's & 1940's