About
The Longlands series is about second chances, slow healing, and the extraordinary things that happen when ordinary people decide to walk together, Based in the Yorkshire country side, this small quiet village refuses to let anyone walk alone. Seven stories of love, loss and sharing. Welcome to Longlands, where the sun remembers its manners, the vicar's cassock is a theological statement, and seventeen children operate as a single chaotic organization known as "the herd". At the heart of this quiet village is Lionel Barstow: retired colonel, and a man who has spent three years counting 847 steps from his cottage to the village cafe. He does not know that Sylvia Banks, the cafes pastry queen and owner of The Bannock, has been contemplating how to coax Lionel to look up from his coffee. He doesn't know that a boy named Mathew needs a hero. These eight stories reveal how one simple act can change a
community forever. For anyone who believes it is never too late to come home.
