Cette série retrace la vie d'un homme qui hérite d'un domaine négligé après son retour de la guerre. Il se consacre à la restauration de la propriété et des terres environnantes, relevant les immenses défis de la gestion rurale. Alors que le XXe siècle se déroule avec ses bouleversements sociaux et ses conflits mondiaux, il doit naviguer entre tradition et progrès, faisant preuve de résilience et d'un profond attachement à sa terre et à sa famille.
Paul Craddock is still young when he is invalided out of the army after the Boer War and he discovers the neglected estate of Shallowford in a secluded corner of Devon. It seems remote from the march of progress. But as storm clouds gather over Europe, Paul learns that no part of England, however remote, can escape the challenge of the times.
'He built an imposing artistic social history that promises to join those of his great forebears in the long, noble line of the English novel. His narratives belong in a tradition that goes back to John Galsworthy and Arnold Bennett' Life Magazine
The third novel in The Horseman Riding By series that established Delderfield as one of the most popular and admired novelists of the 1960s