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Can you remember the first time you encountered true darkness? The kind that remains as black and inky whether your eyes are open or closed? Where you can't see your hand in front of your face?Jacqueline Yallop can. It was in an unfamiliar bedroom while holidaying in Yorkshire as a child, and ever since then she has been fascinated by the dark, by our efforts to capture or avoid it, by the meanings we give to it and the way our brains process ...

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Fans of "The Shepherd's Life" by James Rebanks and "A Year In Provence" by Peter Mayle will find immersion in this story of a year raising pigs in South-West France to rear and slaughter. A Radio 4 Book of the Week.

Lieben Sie Tiere? Essen Sie gerne Fleisch? Dann lesen Sie dieses Buch!Als Jacqueline mit ihrem Mann in den Südwesten Frankreichs zieht, möchte sie dem idealen Leben auf dem Land so nahe wie möglich kommen und kauft zwei Ferkel, die sie ein Jahr lang aufziehen und danach schlachten will. Aber je mehr sich die beiden Tiere in ihr Herz grunzen, desto stärker zweifelt Jacqueline an ihrem Vorhaben. Kann sie sich tatsächlich von ihren Schweinen tren...

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Yallop visits and revisits a range of Britain's 'model' villages, from Scotland's New Lanark mills to the Arts and Crafts Cottages of Port Sunlight. Mixes social and political history, art and architecture, travelogue, biography, philosophy and memoir.

Set in contemporary and World War II France, this is the story of Sister Bernard: her forbidden love, her uncertain faith, and her guilt-ridden past. "Obedience" is a powerful exploration of one woman's struggle to reconcile her aching need to be loved with her fear of God's wrath.

A nun in the fading days of her life is forced to confront the betrayal—to God, to her community, to herself—that she committed as a young nun living in Nazi-occupied France.

Imagine "The Secret Scripture" crossed with "The Reader" in this shattering novel set in Nazi-occupied France. Yallop has spun a story of collaboration, betrayal, illicit love, faith and aching desire. 'Yallop is a powerful and seductive writer... A novel of huge scope and profound questioning' "Sunday Times

Mixing social and political history, art and architecture, travelogue, biography, aesthetics and philosophy with memoir and on-the-ground observation, this book draws on the author's experience as a novelist, bringing her scholarly research to life in an account of the complex and contradictory factors which changed the British landscape.

Jacqueline Yallop read English at Oxford and did her PhD in nineteenth-century literature at the University of Sheffield. She has worked as the curator of the Ruskin Collection in Sheffield and is the author of the non-fiction work Magpies, Squirrels and Thieves and the novels Kissing Alice and Obedience. She currently lives in France.

Jacqueline Yallop read English at Oxford and did her PhD in nineteenth-century literature at the University of Sheffield. She has worked as the curator of the Ruskin Collection in Sheffield and is the author of the non-fiction work Magpies, Squirrels and Thieves and the novels Kissing Alice and Obedience. She currently lives in France.

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