Life at Hill Farm: Two Women, Too Many Horses, and a Whole Lot of Mud.

A funny, muddy, heartfelt memoir about swapping a polished life for a hill farm, too many horses, and a level of chaos no sensible woman would willingly choose.

At forty-eight, Mara Linden sold her executive-style house and bought a farm in rural Ireland.

Not a glossy magazine farm. Not a charming lifestyle dream with roses round the door. Hill Farm came with a steep hill, questionable buildings, mushrooms growing through the floor, eccentric plumbing, relentless mud, and enough horses to make financial sense impossible.

Together with Jenny—her partner in crime, co-conspirator in mud, and the only person she trusts to reverse a horse box in the dark—Mara builds a life around horses, cats, weather, injuries, grief, work, laughter, and the daily battle against gravity.

From moving five horses in the dark to muck heap disasters, escaping wellies, collapsing plans, opinionated animals, farm repairs, radiotherapy, and the quiet cost of loving horses long enough to lose them, Life at Hill Farm is a warm, sharp, and deeply honest account of choosing the harder life because it is also the truer one.

For readers who love horses, rural life, Irish weather, stubborn women, rescue cats, and memoirs with humour, heart, and mud on every page.

Life at Hill Farm is proof that dreams do come true—although sometimes they arrive with a leaking roof, a lame horse, and a wheelbarrow full of poor decisions.