Books by Sarah Langford
Sarah has published two books: In Your Defence: Stories of Life and Law and Rooted: Stories of Life, Land and a Farming Revolution.
“Rooted is more than a memoir; Langford manages to contain and convey the whole scale of the coming agricultural revolution.”
- The Telegraph
“Langford writes so movingly of the countryside and its effect on her heart and her family that she makes a case almost without arguing for the importance of these landscapes and, by extension, the economies that support them.”
- The TLS
“Rooted offers a refreshing perspective on an overwhelmingly masculine world, and the stories it contains coalesce into a powerful narrative of struggle and innovation.”
- The FT
“A barrister’s stories of her cases reads like the best fiction. Sarah Langford has reinvented a genre; if I were a literate criminal barrister, disheartened by my lengthening hours and falling pay, I would be fishing out my old notebooks as if hunting for gold, and approaching fresh cases with the gleaming curiosity of a determined collector.”
- The Times
“This is no typical legal memoir. Against the backdrop of a justice system in crisis, Sarah Langford guides readers through 11 cases demonstrating the workings and failings of the underfunded, overburdened criminal and family courts, laying bare the impact of successive funding cuts that undermine justice for victims and defendants and severely reduce access to the family courts for those without means.”
- Amy Liptrot, The Guardian
“In every word there is a care for stories and people. Langford, like all barristers, is a born story-teller with deep respect for what the legal system can and should do: take the weight from victims’ shoulders and take it on as its own.”
- The Arts Desk