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A life-affirming memoir revelling in the comic, fond and enduring entanglement of people, animals and places.

About the Author

Jacqueline Yallop is the author of three critically acclaimed novels and two works of non-fiction. Jacqueline teaches Creative Writing at the University of Aberystwyth, and divides her time between the UK and south-west France.

Reviews

By turn, poignant, funny, educational and, yes, brutal . . . Yallop's skill lies in blending autobiography with lyrical nature writing.
*Radio Times*

Quietly devastating . . . Yallop writes with great tenderness about the hogs as housekeepers and gourmands
*Daily Telegraph*

A delightful and entertaining memoir
*Woman and Home*

A beautifully written and quietly devastating account of raising two young pigs on [Yallop's] smallholding in the south of France
*Frances Wilson, The New Statesman*

The narrative tension is as tightly coiled as a thriller
*Observer*

Fascinating . . . you certainly have a treat in store
*Literary Review*

Very affecting
*Daily Mail*