Author Helen Whybrow "The Salt Stones"

Authors at the Pope: Helen Whybrow

A perfect read for those who enjoy Braiding Sweetgrass, or Sy Montgomery books, The Salt Stones is a beautiful and captivating read about a family who takes over a 200-acre conserved farm in Vermont. Helen Whybrow writes eloquently about the beauty and hardships of raising Icelandic sheep and dealing with the harsh realities of farm life. The writing intertwines the delicate dance of life and death amongst animals and humans, reminding us about the evolving circle of life giving us a wonderful blend of history, nature, and wisdom.

Before I even knew about this book, other booksellers were talking about it, and they were all saying the same kind of things - beautiful, thoughtful, wanted to read it forever, exquisite, stunning, the best kind of nature memoir, and so on and so on. I immediately thought that this was the kind of book that…