Emma's Luck
By (Author) Claudia Schreiber
Contributions by Anthea Bell
John Murray Press
John Murray Publishers Ltd
1st June 2009
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
833.92
Paperback
224
Width 128mm, Height 196mm, Spine 20mm
160g
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'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
Claudia Schreiber lives and works in Cologne. Emma's Luck" is her first novel.