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A look at the highs and lows of chicken ownership, as experienced by the Gurdon family making their way through the rewarding hobby. Bossy Chicken, Psycho Chicken and Yvette are presented as complex, challenging and finally lovable characters throughout. Told in a quirky and humorous tone.
About the author
Martin Gurdon writes about anything for money, but specializes in cars and hens. As a freelance journalist, author and editor, Martin has written regularly for the Evening Standard, The Independent, Daily Telegraph, Octane, and Classic Cars magazine, where he spent six years as a columnist. Martin shares his garden with chickens, doves and ducks and was a little surprised to discover that their lives made good copy, thanks to a massive increase in amateur chicken keeping. He wrote a regular column about the birds for the Sunday Telegraph's Life supplement, is a regular columnist and contributor to Your Chickens magazine, and blogs on the www.allotment.org.uk website.
Summary
This hilarious chicken memoir follows the author's family through the ups and downs of raising chickens. The relationship between bird and human is by turns heartwarming and bewildering, but always entertaining.
