Place of Stones
1961 memoir of Welsh farm life
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Place of Stones is a 1961 memoir by Ruth Janette Ruck (1928–2006) about living on a farm in Snowdonia, Wales. Place of Stones was followed by sequels Hill Farm Story and Along Came a Llama. Place of Stones remained in print until at least 1992.[1][2]
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| Author | Ruth Janette Ruck |
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| Genre | Back-to-the-land memoir |
| Publisher | Faber and Faber |
Publication date | 1961 |
Place of Stones is set not far from the location of Thomas Firbank's I Bought a Mountain[3] and has been compared to Elizabeth West's Hovel in the Hills.[4]
Ruck lived on Carneddi (place of stones or cairns), a farm that includes the 1529 hall-house Tŷ-Mawr.[5] Carneddi is located above Traeth Gwylit (Menai Strait) on Moel y Dyniewyd.[6] Ruck was 17 years old when she first came to the farm.[7] Some of the improvements she made were funded by the Act of 1946 supporting hill farmers.[7] Ruck also wrote about her participation in the on-location filming of Inn of the Sixth Happiness, which was partially shot in Wales.[7]
The Guardian described Place of Stones as "delightful."[3]
