Title: Echoing Hills
First published: 1988
Description: When the motherless ten-year-old Ellen and her young brother William were first taken to Truns Farm by their father to meet his new wife, she little realized that it was the start of an association between her family and that place which would last for generations.

This is a down-to-earth story of human existence and experience in all its richness and harsh reality. Adolescence, first-love, marriage. Battling with the elements, death, and the callous greed of human nature. Making ends meet financially. And, amid all, the warmth of family life and lassting relationships reinforced by an intuitive faith in all things working together for good.
Subjects: England, Yorkshire
Places: Penistone
People: Phyllis Crossland won her first writing award at the age of nine in an essay competition sponsored by the W.R.C.C. She did not attempt further writing, apart from that connected with school and college, until 1968. Since then she has had articles published in a national magazine, one of these later being included in a book, 'History from the Farm', edited by W.G. Hoskins and published by Faber and Faber.