Rowena Farre

About

Rowena Farre was a British writer who achieved fame for her first book Seal Morning, published in 1957. Seal Morning describes how, at the age of ten, the writer and her aunt Miriam settled in a remote croft in Sutherland, Scotland, where they lived for seven years with various pets that included a common seal, Lora. The book has been reprinted a number of times and translated into seven languages. Seal Morning was made into a UK television series in 1986, though with considerable alterations and the setting relocated to Norfolk.