Woefield Poultry Collective [Paperback] - Softcover

Woefield Poultry Collective

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 336 pages. cover and some pages lightly warpedWoefield Farm is a sprawling thirty acres of scrub land,complete with dilapid ated buildings and one half-sheared,lonely sheep named Bertie. It?s ?run??in the loosestpossible sense of the word?by Prudence Burns, an energetic,well-intentio ned twenty-something New Yorker full of back-to-the-land ideals, but without an iota of related skills or experience.Prudence, who inherited the farm from her u ncle, soondiscovers that the bank is about to foreclose on Woefield Farm,which m eans that Prudence has to turn things around, fast. Butfear not! She?ll be assis ted by Earl, a spry seventy-something,banjo-playing foreman with a distrust of n ewfangled ideasand a substantial family secret; Seth, the alcoholic, celebrity-b loggingboy-next-door, who hasn?t left the house since ascandal with his high-sch ool drama teacher; and Sara Spratt,a highly organized eleven-year-old looking fo r a home for herprizewinning chickens, including one particularly randy fellowso on to be christened Alec Baldwin. Full of offbeat charm and characters you won?t soon forget,The Woefield Poultry Collective is a heartwarming novelabout learni ng how to take on a challenge, facing your fears,and finding friendship in the m ost unlikely of places. With alternatingnarratives, Susan Juby shows how a team of misfitscan find acceptance and success, even with?and sometimes inspite of?th eir highly unorthodox approach. Artikel-Nr. 6894bj

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