The Secret Life of Cows: Rosamund Young - Softcover

Young, Rosamund

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571345794 ISBN 13: 9780571345793

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2018

Synopsis

****A Sunday Times bestseller***
***A Times Book of the Year 2017***

WITH A FOREWORD BY ALAN BENNETT

'A lovely, thoughtful little book about the intelligence of cows.' James Rebanks, author of The Shepherd's Life

Cows are as varied as people. They can be highly intelligent or slow to understand, vain, considerate, proud, shy or inventive.

Although much of a cow's day is spent eating, they always find time for extra-curricular activities such as babysitting, playing hide and seek, blackberry-picking or fighting a tree.

This is an affectionate record of a hitherto secret world.

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Review:

Utterly beguiling., Daily Mail

Illuminating., Sunday Telegraph

A small classic., Financial Times

An extraordinary book about cows and how they live; they have family groups and they certainly have friends. -- Clare Balding

A delightful, spry and neatly crafted book., Sunday Times

No one who has read her book will look at cows in the same light again. -- Blake Morrison, Guardian

A plea for us to appreciate the complex inner lives of our inquisitive, loving, bovine friends. -- Matt Haig, Guardian Books of the Year

The Secret Life of Cows is one of the most charming and touching books I have ever read. -- Jilly Cooper

'Curiously moving. I felt myself welling up a little at Young's account of being "wrenched" from a deep sleep on a cold February night by a moo of absolute determination. It was Araminta, a mother calling out for her sickly son. This touching book will leave you looking at Friesians in the field - and even a nice bit of rib-eye steak - completely differently.', Times

Book Description:

This farmer's observations of her herd is a rediscovered gem and a Sunday Times bestseller. 'Delightful . . . it alters the way one looks at the world.' - Alan Bennett

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0571345794
• ISBN 13: 9780571345793
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160