Towards Mellbreak

After many generations it is now in 1971 Harold who runs Ard Farm. Out on the fells he feels his father's presence and there is hope that he his grandmother and his Uncle Joe will be able to take the farm forward and prosper. But their way of life is under threat. Farming is undergoing huge change and increasingly harmful intervention. As the years pass and Harold has a son of his own he strives to keep control of his land to make a go of it even while forces he cannot understand are gradually destroying him...Towards Mellbreak is a hymn both to the landscape of Cumbria and to a disappearing world. Poetic beautiful and tragic it gives an account of the struggle to preserve traditions and beliefs in the face of change. It is a quietly bold indictment of the treatment of generations of British men and an assertion of the power to be found in the rituals we pass down through our families.