Books by Marion Shoard

Marion Shoard wrote and campaigned about Britain's countryside for 35 years. Her first book, The Theft of the Countryside, prompted 25 letters in The Times, her second, This Land is Our Land, a Channel 4 documentary (Power in the Land) and her third, A Right to Roam, shaped the debate which led to ground-breaking rights of access to the countryside being enacted in the early years of the century. She has worked for the Campaign to Protect Rural England and lectured in countryside planning at Reading University and University College London. Just as A Right to Roam was being published in 1999, Marion's mother lost her sight and developed dementia. Pitched into a world of which she then knew nothing, Marion was determined that once she had secured good care for her mother, she would provide others with the straight-talking advice she had sought in vain. How to Handle Later Life not only provides this guidance but offers a comprehensive grounding in the whole range of problems and opportunities which come with growing older. It completely replaces and is nearly twice the length of her 2004 book A Survival Guide to Later Life. For further information about the author, see Wikipedia and marionshoard.co.uk.