{"product_id":"big-pig-little-pig-9780241977156","title":"Big Pig Little Pig","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''A love story, a meditation on meat eating, on farming animals, on the relations between man and beast. Yallop writes with great tenderness'' \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn her fortieth birthday Jacqueline Yallop built a pig sty in rural south-west France. She and her husband Ed had decided to turn their Aveyron cottage and garden into a small holding. They bought two pigs - Big and Little - to rear and slaughter. The locals were full of advice, and with just a small amount of plastic poles and metallic string and some new Wellington boots, they were off.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThey will cultivate the land. They will raise, then kill and eat their pigs. Or so they keep telling themselves. Because the reality is so very different from the romantic dreams of two stubborn English writers . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy turn, \u003cb\u003epoignant\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003efunny\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eeducational\u003c\/b\u003e and, yes, brutal . . .\u003cb\u003e Yallop's skill\u003c\/b\u003e lies in \u003cb\u003eblending autobiography\u003c\/b\u003e with \u003cb\u003elyrical nature writing\u003c\/b\u003e. * Radio Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eQuietly devastating\u003c\/b\u003e . . . Yallop writes with great \u003cb\u003etenderness \u003c\/b\u003eabout the hogs as housekeepers and gourmands * Daily Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eA \u003cb\u003edelightful\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eentertaining\u003c\/b\u003e memoir * Woman and Home *\u003cbr\u003eA \u003cb\u003ebeautifully written\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003equietly devastating account \u003c\/b\u003eof raising two young pigs on [Yallop's] smallholding in the south of France * Frances Wilson, The New Statesman *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe narrative \u003cb\u003etension \u003c\/b\u003eis as \u003cb\u003etightly coiled as a thriller\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e * Observer *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFascinating\u003c\/b\u003e . . . you \u003cb\u003ecertainly have a treat in store\u003c\/b\u003e * Literary Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eVery affecting\u003c\/b\u003e * Daily Mail *","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52090667630935,"sku":"9780241977156","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780241977156.jpg?v=1762273006","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/big-pig-little-pig-9780241977156","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}