Wind in the Ash Tree

by Jeanine McMullen

Overview

"Engaging and often uproariously funny. . . . For animal buffs, this one is not to be missed." —Kirkus Reviews

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393306279
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	10/17/1989
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	206
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)

Editorial Reviews

"Jeanine McMullen is a funny, gifted writer who portrays her life in the countryside with rare wit and charm. Those who love animals will love this book. She meets her many tribulations with animals and people with unquenchable courage and humour and she always makes me laugh. This is a happy and totally beguiling book."

James Herriot

"McMullen tells tales about her Welsh farm and its incredible assortment of goats, sheep, dogs, horses, and people. . . . For fans of Herriot, a new voice from the country."

Booklist

McMullen here continues the enchanting saga of life on a Welsh farm begun in her first book, My Small Country Living. It's a hard life of impossible weather, barnyard tragedies and impending financial disaster, but the author, seeing the humorous side of every situation, writes with delicious wit about the endearing creatures she loves and cares for as she might children, and the various people, helpful or otherwise, who drift in and out of her life. All of her animalslovesick goats, demanding dogs, obstinate ducks, a hypochondriacal horse, disputatious sheep, a childless pig who kidnaps a lambare relentless in imposing their nonconformist personalities on their owner, but she weathers everything, including her eccentric mother, the psychic Mrs. P. (who comes to stay and makes life more than usually complicated and chaotic), and even manages to turn her adventures into a successful BBC radio series. Photos not seen by PW. (October)

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