Along Came a Llama

"Along Came a Llama" is a charming 1970s farming classic that tells the story of how a baby llama transformed a Welsh farming family forever. It is full of soul and humor and is a guide to a good life.

Format: Hardback
Length: 304 pages
Publication date: 01 October 2020
Publisher: Faber & Faber

My Family and Other Animals meets The Secret Life of Cows in this rediscovered gem, which tells the charming tale of how a baby llama transformed a Welsh farming family forever.

Things llamas like include snaffling cherry brandy, Easter eggs, and the Radio Times. Curling up in a tea-cosy position by the fire. Orbiting, helicoptering, and oompahing. Locking victims in the lavatory.

Things llamas dislike include being adopted as the mother of an orphaned lamb. Invitations to star on Blue Peter. Snowdonia's rainfall. The dark.

Ruth Ruck's family lives on a Welsh mountain farm, no strangers to cow pats on the carpet and nesting hens in the larder. When dark days strike, they embark on a farming experiment to cheer them all up - but raising a baby llama proves more of an adventure than expected.

Reissued with a new foreword by John Lewis-Stempel, Along Came a Llama is a delightful 1970s farming classic: a charming, witty portrait of country life that will warm the hearts of animal lovers everywhere. Full of soul, one departs this book a convinced llama-lover. It is a guide to the future. To a good life.

John Lewis-Stempel

Weight: 368g
Dimension: 138 x 206 x 31 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780571363193
Edition number: Main