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Apple Island Wife : Slow Living In Tasmania, Paperback / softback Book

Apple Island Wife : Slow Living In Tasmania Paperback / softback

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What happens when you leave city life and move to five acres on a hunch, with a husband who's an aspiring alpaca-whisperer, and a feral cockerel for company?

Can you eat the cockerel for dinner? Or has it got rigor mortis?In search of a good life and a slower pace, Fiona Stocker upped-sticks and moved to Tasmania, a land of promise, wilderness, and family homes of uncertain build quality.

It was the lifestyle change that many dream of and most are too sensible to attempt. Wife, mother and now reluctant alpaca owner, Fiona jumped in at the deep end.

Gradually Tasmania got under her skin as she learned to stack wood, round up the kids with a retired lady sheepdog, and stand on a scorpion without getting stung.

This charming tale captures the tussles and euphoria of living on the land in a place of untrammelled beauty, raising your family where you want to and seeing your husband in a whole new light.

Not just a memoir but an everywoman's story, and a paean to a new, slower age.

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