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    How to Breed Sheep, Geese and English Eccentrics

    By Valerie Poore

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    When Maisie Peterson leaves university in 1977 without a job to go to, she decides to help her mother save her large and impractical country property in the wilds of rural Dorset by trying her hand at self-sufficiency. Ma is just a tad eccentric, though, and Maisie has no clue about farming. Her efforts are thwarted at quite a few turns by a flock of willful sheep, a dotty aunt, a charming but ineffective boyfriend and a swarthy, but highly desirably agricultural auctioneer. Emily, the ewe, runs rings round her while Ma drifts in and out of the scene in an ancient wedding dress, causing havoc in Maisie's attempts to sort out her personal as well as her agricultural problems.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateJan 27, 2014
    ISBN9781291715477
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    How to Breed Sheep, Geese and English Eccentrics
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    Valerie Poore

    Valerie Poore was born in London, England, and after completing her degrees in English, History and French, and a further course in the conservation and restoration of museum artefacts, she worked for a furniture restoration company until the birth of her first daughter. She lived a life of ‘self-sufficiency’ on a smallholding before going to South Africa in 1981 with her husband and very small children, where they lived on a farm in Natal (subject of her first book, African Ways). She currently lives on a barge in Rotterdam, a rather special lifestyle. Her second book, Watery Ways, is about her first year of living on the Dutch waterways . The Skipper’s Child was influenced by her Dutch partner’s childhood growing up on a commercial barge. However, although the family and some of the events and anecdotes are founded in fact, the story is purely fictional.

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