The sty's the limit

when middle age gets mucky

264 pages

English language

Published Oct. 17, 2015 by Orion, Orion Publishing Group, Limited.

ISBN:
9781409154679
OCLC Number:
945657459

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3 stars (1 review)

Years ago, after a drunken misunderstanding, Simon Dawson gave up his job in the city, moved to the wilds of Exmoor and became an accidental self-sufficient smallholder surrounded by animals. But now his life is changing all over again--horror of horrors, he's getting older. Enlisting a cast of best friends--including Ziggy, a panicked soon-to-be father, Garth, an annoying teenager, and the General, a rather handsome pig--to work through their age-related angsts, a plan is hatched to help each other mature (or immature). Hilarity and heartfelt discoveries ensue--all with a fair dose of animal madness along the way. Join Simon and company in this uplifting laugh-out-loud antidote to middle age in the mud; a place where you truly realise that the sty's the limit.

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Review of "The sty's the limit" on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

I have to admit that having loved Simon Dawson's previous book, this one felt like a bit of a disappointment, but I think my reading of it was colored by my mounting discomfort at one of the relationships portrayed in it. This was between a teenaged boy, often shown in the text to be very immature, and a woman in her thirties - the boy was sent to the farm by his parents because they were concerned about this relationship but the attitude of the narrative seemed very "Whahaaay, go on son!" There was an author's note at the back saying some of the characters were fictionalized and I really hope this boy was.

Subjects

  • Farmers
  • Biography
  • Farm life
  • Self-reliant living
  • Small Farms

Places

  • England
  • Devon