A01=Rosie Boycott
Author_Rosie Boycott
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Product details
- ISBN 9780747590316
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 02 Jun 2008
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 of running a smallholding. They learn too about weightier issues that affect the local community of Ilminster - particularly the new supermarket that threatens the soul of the local town centre. And Rosie finds recovery in the rhythms of the seasons.
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.
