The Sheep Stell is Janet White's beautiful and evocative memoir about her life as a shepherd: a lost classic.

As a child in wartime England, Janet White decided that she wanted to live somewhere wild and supremely beautiful, to inhabit and work the landscape. She imagined searching the world for a place high and remote as a sheep stell, quiet as a monastery, challenging and untouched.

Turning her back on convention, Janet's desire to carve out her own pastoral Eden has taken her from the Cheviot Hills to Sussex and Somerset, via the savage beauty of rural New Zealand.

The Sheep Stell tells the tale of a woman before her time: a woman with incredible courage and determination, truly devoted to the land and its creatures. Deeply evocative and profound, it is a lost classic.

A beautifully written memoir of a quietly courageous life. My admiration for its author grew on every page: her strength of purpose, her resolve, and her clear, straightforward love of solitude, space and freedom that carried her - and carried me - around the world and back