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How to Breed Sheep, Geese and English Eccentrics

How to Breed Sheep, Geese and English Eccentrics

Author(s): Valerie Poore

Location(s): Dorset

Genre(s): Humour

Era(s): Late1900s

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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.

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Maisie and family get stuck into farming, but do they have experience. No! A great portrayal of the “eccentric” vein that courses through the British heart

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