The Farmers Son, John Connell
The Farmers Son, John Connell
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The Farmer's Son
Calving Season on a Family Farm

Author: John Connell

Narrator: Alan Smyth

Unabridged: 7 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/07/2019


Synopsis

For fans of The Shepherd's Life, a poignant memoir—and #1 Irish bestseller—about a wayward son's return home to his family's farm, and how he found a new beginning in an age-old world

Farming has been in John Connell's family for generations, but he never intended to follow in his father's footsteps. Until, one winter, after more than a decade away, he finds himself back on the farm.

Connell records the hypnotic rhythm of the farming day—cleaning the barns, caring for the herd, tending to sickly lambs, helping the cows give birth. Alongside the routine events, there are the unforeseen moments when things go wrong: when a calf fails to thrive, when a sheep goes missing, when illness breaks out, when an argument between father and son erupts and things are said that cannot be unsaid.

The Farmer's Son is the story of a calving season, and the story of a man who emerges from depression to find hope in the place he least expected to find it. It is the story of Connell's life as a farmer, and of his relationship with the community of County Longford, with his faith, with the animals he tends, and, above all, with his father.

About John Connell

John Connell's work has been published in Granta's "New Irish Writing." The Farmer's Son is his debut. He lives on his family farm in County Longford, Ireland.


Reviews

Look if you told me I’d read a non fiction book about cows, and love it, I’d laugh in your face. But this book is not just a book about cows, or about life on a farm. It’s a book about life. Life full stop. I identified with the family dynamics so much, and even felt a sigh of relief that it’s not ju......more

Goodreads review by Jessica

I'm not into farming and so the history of cows went over my head. But I loved this book because it was such an honest telling of John's life on the farm and made me feel proud to be from rural Longford.......more