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product_id: 57478779
title: "My Animals (and Other Family): A rural childhood 1937-1956"
brand: "merlin unwin books"
price: "VT5705"
currency: VUV
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category: "Hardcover"
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# My Animals (and Other Family): A rural childhood 1937-1956

**Brand:** merlin unwin books
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- **What is this?** My Animals (and Other Family): A rural childhood 1937-1956 by merlin unwin books
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My Animals (and Other Family) "Falling truly, madly, deeply in love with one animal after another was a recurrent theme of the author's childhood, actively encouraged by her beautiful, impetuous mother as she single-handedly held the family together during the war's darkest days.While her husband's regiment battled through the Tunisian desert to Italy and Austria, she criss-crossed beleaguered Britain with children, ration books, and an unwieldy train of rabbits, dogs, cats and ponies, dreaming of land of her own.But farming can't be learned overnight, and translated into the reality of 400 acres of hilly, rain-lashed Radnorshire, that dream became a challenge for all ranks. Dragooned in...

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