num_pages: 218
description: The news couldn't be worse for Tam, Richie and their new supervisor: Mr McCrindle's fence has gone slack. The three of them are duly dispatched to the McCrindle farm, where they finish off the work, then go to England where, after rain-sodden days bashing in fence posts, they wolf down baked beans in their shared caravan and spend their evenings and cash in the local pub. But then they encounter the Hall Brothers -- butchers, rival fencers and local heroes...
language: English
title: The Restraint of Beasts
titlecomplete: The Restraint of Beasts
genres: Fiction, British Literature, Comedy, Scotland, Humor, Literature, Novels, Contemporary, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 3338
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: McKitterick Prize
publisher: Harper Perennial