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Emma's Luck

(Paperback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

Emma's Luck

Contributors:

By (Author) Claudia Schreiber
Contributions by Anthea Bell

ISBN:

9780719521010

Publisher:

John Murray Press

Imprint:

John Murray Publishers Ltd

Publication Date:

1st June 2009

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

General

Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:

Fiction

Dewey:

833.92

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

224

Dimensions:

Width 128mm, Height 196mm, Spine 20mm

Weight:

160g

Description

Emma lives alone in a big farmhouse with her animals for company: she talks to her chickens, cuddles up to her pigs in the sty and caresses her cows. But she also must make a living from her livestock, selling meat and making sausages. For Emma, it's all part of a natural process, and she does her best to give the pigs a short and sweet death, having developed her very own way of killing her pigs most tenderly.

For all her happiness on the farm, there are two things in Emma's life she desperately wants: money to save her farm, which is deeply in debt, and a man. One night, she is woken by a crash. In her field, she finds a wrecked Ferrari. and in it, an unconscious man - with an enormous amount of cash.

It looks like Emma's prayers have been answered - but have they Will the mysterious Max adapt to rural life, or will his past come back to haunt them

Reviews

'The myth of the bucolic idyll ... Emma's Luck" presents ... the fortunes of solitary farm girl Emma who longs for a man to join her happy family of contented chickens, loving pigs and generous cows' -- Observer

Author Bio

Claudia Schreiber lives and works in Cologne. Emma's Luck" is her first novel.

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