Charlotte Smith
COUNTRYFILE PRESENTER AND BBC BROADCASTER
A familiar face on our screens, Countryfile and Farming Today presenter Charlotte Smith has been a judge for the James Cropper Wainwright Prize for nature and conservation writing for several years.
THE FARMER’S WIFE
BY HELEN REBANKS (FABER & FABER)
With recipes and illustrations, The Farmer’s Wife is a lovely read about ordinary life on a farm. Helen writes brilliantly about the constant juggle: kids, meals, animals, paperwork, more meals. It’s familiar to any working parent and yet the setting is a Lake District farm in all its unvarnished reality. It rains, animals die, kids argue, life goes on, “a constant remaking and reshaping,” she says.
