num_pages: 240
description: It was like being the village idiot with O-levels. I jack-knifed trailers, got outwitted by even the dimmest animals and was dragged through a hedge backwards on a tractor ...' Richard Benson was never cut out for the family farm, but he returned from London when his dad had to sell up and found that their shared loss was part of a profound change in rural life. In the house after the sale, dad gave a heavy raspy sigh and sank against my mum. Everything seemed to freeze for a moment as the clock kept ticking ...'
language: English
title: The Farm
titlecomplete: The Farm
genres: Autobiography, Memoir, Nature, Biography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 306
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Guardian First Book Award
publisher: Gardners Books