why did mrs hall leave darrowby

Mrs Hall leaves Darrowby in All Creatures Great and Small because she goes to Sunderland to be with her son Edward and help care for his family after he narrowly survives a wartime ship sinking.

In-story reason she leaves

• Mrs Hall’s son Edward is badly affected after the ship he is serving on is sunk in enemy action, and he needs long-term support from his mother.

• She moves from Darrowby to Sunderland to look after him and, later, her new granddaughter, choosing her family duties over her life at Skeldale House.

• As the years pass and her son’s family grows, it becomes clear to everyone in Darrowby that she will not be coming back, and they accept that her place is now with her own kin.

How it fits the wider story

• Earlier in the series, Mrs Hall is portrayed as the emotional anchor of Skeldale House, but she also carries deep guilt and concern over Edward, with whom she has a complicated history.

• Her eventual departure to support him completes that emotional arc: she finally prioritizes repairing and supporting her own family, even though it means leaving the surrogate family she built in Darrowby.

TL;DR: Mrs Hall leaves Darrowby because her son Edward needs her after the war, and she chooses to live in Sunderland to support him and his new child, making her absence from Skeldale permanent.

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