Pigs in Clover, Simon Dawson
Pigs in Clover, Simon Dawson
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Pigs in Clover
Or How I Accidentally Fell in Love with the Good Life

Author: Simon Dawson

Narrator: Ben Allen

Unabridged: 10 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Orion

Published: 01/07/2016


Synopsis

This is the true story of a Londoner who gives up his job as an estate agent in the city, moves to the wilds of Exmoor, starts a smallholding and becomes self-sufficient, with a few bumps along the way. Simon's journey from urbanite to self-sufficient smallholder is brimming with incidents - some funny and some tragic - leading him to question Mother Nature, himself, the food he eats, and his role in it all. Which makes the transition from city life to self-sufficient smallholder slow, emotional and, for him, often confusing, but it is also beautiful, warming and laugh-out-loud funny.

So if you would like to spend time with an accidental smallholder who completely changed one drunken night in Devon, then join Simon, his wife and their extended family as they learn the truth of what it takes to live a self-sufficient life, before eventually becoming as happy as the proverbial pigs in clover.

(p) 2016 Magna Large Print Books

About Simon Dawson

Simon Dawson gave up his job as an estate agent in London and moved to Exmoor with his wife Debbie over a decade ago. He runs courses on smallholding, butchery, food processing and nose-to-tail eating and came first for the South-West on TV's LOCAL FOOD HEROES in 2007. He is much in demand as a journalist and broadcaster, as well as being midwife and foster dad to countless pigs, sheep, goats, chickens, dogs and horses.Follow Simon on Twitter @simondawson1


Reviews

A lovely bedtime read. A story about being torn between city and country, life running a small-holding farm in Devon, a happy marriage and lots of much loved and contented animals. Simon Dawson's humour is a great pleasure too. I enjoyed it thoroughly.......more

Heartfelt and really familiar to someone who is another smallholder. Review soon.......more


Quotes

James Herriot's 'All Creatures Great and Small' meets Stuart Maconie - funny, from the heart and utterly wonderful from start to finish. Daily Express

Simon Dawson's books should come with "scratch and sniff" pages containing the aroma of the Devon countryside at every turn... A witty, revealing heart-warming and honest account of his triumphs and travails. Devon Life

Enchanting Daily Mail

One of the most amusing writers I know Country Smallholding magazine

It made me laugh and it made me think. I highly recommend it...it's a ten from Len!