In 1945 Betty MacDonald published The Egg and I, a lightly fictionalized account of her life as the wife of a chicken farmer in the remote American Northwest in the 1920s.
This is Betty\'s story..
It has never been out of print.
The book was an immediate success, selling a million copies in less than a year, and was eventually translated into over thirty languages.
In 1945 Betty MacDonald published The Egg and I, a lightly fictionalized account of her life as the wife of a chicken farmer in the remote American Northwest in the 1920s