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Spotted Pigs and Green Tomatoes: A Year in the Life of Our Farm
Rosie Boycott
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Description for Spotted Pigs and Green Tomatoes: A Year in the Life of Our Farm
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After leaving the editorship of the "Daily Express", Rosie Boycott wasn't sure what to do next. A terrible car accident forced her to rethink her life, turning her in a direction she would never have previously imagined. Working a small farm in Somerset proves a daunting task, but Rosie and her new husband Charlie are determined, and their immersion in rural living, hilarious and profoundly moving, reaps rewards they never expected. Pigs, ducks and geese are fattened for the butcher; vegetables and cut flowers are grown for a reluctant marketplace; and Rosie and Charlie discover much about the hard graft ... Read more
After leaving the editorship of the "Daily Express", Rosie Boycott wasn't sure what to do next. A terrible car accident forced her to rethink her life, turning her in a direction she would never have previously imagined. Working a small farm in Somerset proves a daunting task, but Rosie and her new husband Charlie are determined, and their immersion in rural living, hilarious and profoundly moving, reaps rewards they never expected. Pigs, ducks and geese are fattened for the butcher; vegetables and cut flowers are grown for a reluctant marketplace; and Rosie and Charlie discover much about the hard graft ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc London
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780747590316
SKU
KEX0220161
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-2
About Rosie Boycott
Rosie Boycott is one of the UK's leading journalists and broadcasters, and has frequently been in the vanguard of significant social and political movements. She appears regularly on radio and TV, and has chaired the committees for both the Orange Prize and the Samuel Johnson Prize.
Reviews for Spotted Pigs and Green Tomatoes: A Year in the Life of Our Farm
'TV's The Good Life meets Richard Benson's The Farm, with Fast Food Nation and Tescopoly thrown in for good measure' Observer Food Monthly 'Boycott is admirably, wincingly honest and her reflections on the calming effects of her rural environment will chime with many people in both town and country' Richard Benson, Mail on Sunday 'Compelling stuff, a poignant ... Read more