Questa serie racconta la vita di un uomo che eredita una tenuta trascurata dopo il ritorno dalla guerra. Si dedica al restauro della proprietà e delle terre circostanti, affrontando le immense sfide della gestione rurale. Mentre il XX secolo si svolge con i suoi sconvolgimenti sociali e conflitti globali, deve navigare tra tradizione e progresso, dimostrando resilienza e un profondo legame con la sua terra e la sua famiglia.
Paul Craddock is still young when he is invalided out of the army after the Boer War and he discovers the neglected estate of Shallowford in a secluded corner of Devon. It seems remote from the march of progress. But as storm clouds gather over Europe, Paul learns that no part of England, however remote, can escape the challenge of the times.
'He built an imposing artistic social history that promises to join those of his great forebears in the long, noble line of the English novel. His narratives belong in a tradition that goes back to John Galsworthy and Arnold Bennett' Life Magazine
The third novel in The Horseman Riding By series that established Delderfield as one of the most popular and admired novelists of the 1960s