Amanda Owen

Amanda Owen documents rural work and family life as an English shepherdess, farmer, photographer, and television personality in the Yorkshire Dales. A Year in the Life of the Yorkshire Shepherdess follows the seasonal cycle at Ravenseat, from severe winter isolation and lambing to haymaking, livestock care, and the demands of raising a large family on a remote hill farm. Pan published the paperback in 2017. Adventures of the Yorkshire Shepherdess continues that account with further episodes from the farm, including changing weather, animal emergencies, family milestones, and the practical ingenuity required by distance. Pan Macmillan published it in 2020. Owen grew up in Huddersfield and moved into agricultural work after reading James Herriot, eventually settling in Swaledale. Both books connect memoir with close observation of landscape and husbandry. Their appeal comes from concrete routines and mishaps rather than an idealized countryside, showing how tradition, machinery, animals, children, and weather shape each day at Ravenseat. The details keep each memoir grounded in labor, weather, animals, relationships, and practical demands of farming.