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The Farmer's Son
- Calving Season on a Family Farm
- Narrated by: Alan Smyth
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
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Summary
For fans of The Shepherd's Life, a poignant memoir - and number-one Irish best seller - 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.
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- Anonymous User
- 04-11-23
A Book I Love, But Why The Different Name
Very undermining to have the cow book and this be the same book. I thought this was a different book by the same Author, having already purchased the cow book physically. Perhaps the name change had to be made, or was deemed appropriate, but it could have at least been made clear that it was the same book in the description. Cheeky.
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- Kindle Customer
- 01-02-22
Touchingly Real
As true a tale of Irish life as has ever been told.
Well done John.
Soran Abú.
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