My Small Country Living

Jeanine McMullen. Grand Central Publishing, $8.95 (219pp) ISBN 978-0-446-38305-9

A freelance broadcaster for BBC radio, McMullen bought a farm in Wales on impulse and stocked it with a variety of animals, including goats, geese, sheep and cattle. Relating her experience on radio, her shows about rural life became enormously popular. PW called her memoir ""irresistible, a gem of the genre.'' December

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