This article was written for Annabel & Grace, which is now part of Rest Less.
Alan Bennett is surely right to say in his foreword,
“it’s a book that alters the way one looks at the world, with dumb animals not as dumb as we would like to think. It’s a book that alters the way one sees things and passing a field of cows nowadays I find myself wondering about their friendships and their outlook, notions that before reading Young’s book I would have thought fanciful, even daft. Not any more.”
It certainly makes one think of the milk you are drinking or the beef you are eating and how the cow was reared.