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Two Shakes of a Lamb's Tail by Danielle Hawkins
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Two Shakes of a Lamb's Tail

The Diary of a Country Vet

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Narrator Kirsty Gillmore

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Length 8 hours 13 minutes
Language English
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Two Shakes of a Lamb's Tail is the funny, illuminating diary of a year in the life of a New Zealand farm vet


With a husband and two children, 1200 sheep and 400 cattle, farm dogs and pet lambs, pigs bent on excavation and a goat bent on escape, country life is never dull. From calving cows to constipated dogs, weddings to weaning lambs, daffodils to ducklings to droughts, each season brings new challenges and delights. Sometimes it's exhausting but it's almost always a lot of fun - anyway, it's all part and parcel of the life of a Kiwi mother, farmer's wife and vet.

Bestselling NZ author Danielle Hawkins lives on a sheep and beef farm near Otorohanga with her husband and two children. She works part-time as a large animal vet, and writes when the kids are at school and she's not required for farming purposes. She is a keen gardener, an intermittently keen cook and an avid reader. Her other talents include memorising poetry, making bread and zapping flies with an electric fly swat. She tends to exaggerate to improve a story, with the result that her husband believes almost nothing she says.  Look for @DanielleHawkinsauthor on Facebook.

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