{"product_id":"ghosts-of-the-farm-nicola-chester-9781915294678","title":"Ghosts of the Farm: Two Women's Journeys Through Time, Land and Community","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the Wainwright Nature Prize Highly Commended author Nicola Chester, a rural narrative between two women in two different eras who both wanted to become farmers.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is the story of Miss White, a woman who lived in the author's village 80 years ago, a pioneer who realised her ambition to become a farmer during the Second World War, and how she worked to become accepted within this community. Nicola Chester, too, dreamed of becoming a farmer but working with horses was the only path open to her. Was it easier for women to become farmers in the 1940s than it is now? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMoving between Nicola's own attempts to work outdoors and Miss White's desire to farm a generation earlier, Nicola explores the parallels between their lives - and the differences. Miss White buys a derelict farm and begins to renovate and modernize it. As ghost (barn) owls flit between these two worlds, Nicola draws connections with farming and rural life in both times, from the role of women in rural communities in the modern day to Miss White's experience in the 1940s. And how those farming modernizations have left the modern day with both a denuded landscape and farming community and a disconnect from nature. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIncreasingly, Nicola's research into past and present interlinks and illuminates her own battles to raise awareness of rural communities, outdoor work and the ongoing loss of farmland birds that were so familiar to Miss White.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nicola Chester\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1915294673\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781915294678\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Chelsea Green Publishing UK\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/30\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs","brand":"Nicola Chester","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46807267606783,"sku":"9781915294678","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e84a0696-b6b0-47a4-9ecd-c128f3642ebc.jpg?v=1745378986","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ghosts-of-the-farm-nicola-chester-9781915294678","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}