Big Pig, Little Pig
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Big Pig, Little Pig by Jacqueline Yallop
As heard on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week 'A delightful and entertaining memoir' Woman and Home When Jacqueline moves to south-west France with her husband, she embraces rural village life and buys two pigs to rear for slaughter. But as she gets to know the animals better, her English sentimentality threatens to get in the way and she begins to wonder if she can actually bring herself to kill them. This is a memoir about that fateful decision, but it's also about the ethics of meat eating in the modern age, and whether we should know, respect and even love the animals we eat. At its heart, this book is a love story, exploring the increasing attachment of the author for her particular pigs, and celebrating the enduring closeness of humans and pigs over the centuries.
By turn, poignant, funny, educational and, yes, brutal. . Yallop's skill lies in blending autobiography with lyrical nature writing. * Radio Times *
Quietly devastating . . . Yallop writes with great tenderness about the hogs as housekeepers and gourmands * Daily Telegraph *
A delightful and entertaining memoir * Woman and Home *
A beautifully written and quietly devastating account of raising two young pigs on [Yallop's] smallholding in the south of France * Frances Wilson, The New Statesman *
Fascinating . . . you certainly have a treat in store * Literary Review *
Very affecting * Daily Mail *
Quietly devastating . . . Yallop writes with great tenderness about the hogs as housekeepers and gourmands * Daily Telegraph *
A delightful and entertaining memoir * Woman and Home *
A beautifully written and quietly devastating account of raising two young pigs on [Yallop's] smallholding in the south of France * Frances Wilson, The New Statesman *
The narrative tension is as tightly coiled as a thriller
* Observer *Fascinating . . . you certainly have a treat in store * Literary Review *
Very affecting * Daily Mail *
Jacqueline Yallop is the author of three critically acclaimed novels and two works of non-fiction. Jacqueline teaches Creative Writing at the University of Aberystwyth, and divides her time between the UK and south-west France.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780241261415 |
| ISBN 10 | 0241261414 |
| Title | Big Pig, Little Pig |
| Author | Jacqueline Yallop |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2017-07-06 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |