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The Farmer's Son: Calving Season on a Family Farm

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Availability:In StockContributor:John ConnellPublish date:2020-05-12Pages:256
Language:EnglishPublisher:Ecco PressISBN-13:9780358305590ISBN-10:358305594UPC:9780358305590Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Family & Relationships, NatureBook Subcategory:Personal Memoirs, Dysfunctional Families, AnimalsSize:8.00 x 5.20 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SC5PR28296
For fans of The Shepherd's Life, a poignant memoir--and #1 Irish bestseller--about a wayward son's return home to his family's farm, and how he found a new beginning in an age-old world

Farming has been in John Connell's family for generations, but he never intended to follow in his father's footsteps. Until, one winter, after more than a decade away, he finds himself back on the farm.

Connell records the hypnotic rhythm of the farming day--cleaning the barns, caring for the herd, tending to sickly lambs, helping the cows give birth. Alongside the routine events, there are the unforeseen moments when things go wrong: when a calf fails to thrive, when a sheep goes missing, when illness breaks out, when an argument between father and son erupts and things are said that cannot be unsaid.

The Farmer's Son is the story of a calving season, and the story of a man who emerges from depression to find hope in the place he least expected to find it. It is the story of Connell's life as a farmer, and of his relationship with the community of County Longford, with his faith, with the animals he tends, and, above all, with his father.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Ecco PressISBN-13:9780358305590ISBN-10:358305594UPC:9780358305590Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Family & Relationships, NatureBook Subcategory:Personal Memoirs, Dysfunctional Families, AnimalsSize:8.00 x 5.20 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SC5PR28296
John Connell is a multiple award-winning investigative journalist, film producer, author and playwright. His book was a number one bestseller and award-winner in Ireland. He lives and farms in his native Longford, in rural Ireland.

Publisher: Ecco Press

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John Connell

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