Winter’s Longest Sleep

Written by Kelia-Jane Hannaford*, this is a story of hardship and decisions. It is centred on Devon’s Exmoor near the end of the 18th century.

I was pleased to have been asked to do some of the illustrations for the book, which also contains some of the author’s own photographs:

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The farmhouse where the family take refuge – an inglenook – and an extinguished candle in the moonlight
The forge – family graves at the farmhouse – a gold guinea

An aside about Kelia-Jane can be found at: https://scratchypen.wordpress.com/2021/08/20/whatever-happened-to-kelia-jane/

*Kelia-Jane Hannaford is the pen name of Richard J Small, a prolific author with ten other books to his name.