The Farmer's Son: Calving Season on a Family Farm

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.

Author: John Connell
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 05/12/2020
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9780358305590
ISBN10: 0358305594
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- Family & Relationships | Dysfunctional Families
- Nature | Animals | General

About the Author
John Connell is a multiple award-winning investigative journalist, film producer, author and playwright. His book was a number one bestseller and award-winner in Ireland. He lives and farms in his native Longford, in rural Ireland.