Description For fans of The Shepherd\'s Life , a poignant memoir--and #1 Irish bestseller--about a wayward son\'s return home to his family\'s farm, and how he found a new beginning in an age-old world Farming has been in John Connell\'s Family for generations, but he never intended to follow in his father\'s footsteps.
It is the story of Connell\'s life as a farmer, and of his relationship with the community of County Longford, with his faith, with the animals he tends, and, above all, with his father..
The Farmer\'s Son is the story of a Calving season, and the story of a man who emerges from depression to find hope in the place he least expected to find it.
Alongside the routine events, there are the unforeseen moments when things go wrong: when a calf fails to thrive, when a sheep goes missing, when illness breaks out, when an argument between father and son erupts and things are said that cannot be unsaid.
Connell records the hypnotic rhythm of the farming day--cleaning the barns, caring for the herd, tending to sickly lambs, helping the cows give birth.
Until, one winter, after more than a decade away, he finds himself back on the farm.
Description For fans of The Shepherd\'s Life , a poignant memoir--and #1 Irish bestseller--about a wayward son\'s return home to his family\'s farm, and how he found a new beginning in an age-old world Farming has been in John Connell\'s Family for generations, but he never intended to follow in his father\'s footsteps
