<b>A book to read and re-read</b>, then, slowly and thoughtfully

Rural Jersey Country Life Magazine

A <b>beautiful and soothing</b> book, at once far-reaching and intimate, it serves as a sublime exhortation to stop and savour our precious and fleeting time on earth, to be grateful for the life we're given

- Donal Ryan,

This is such a lovely book, beautifully constructed and crafted. As everyone knows who has enjoyed <i>The Cow Book, </i>John Connell writes like a dream. In <i>Twelve Sheep he </i>returns to the old family farm in Longford, and the contours of a landscape both starkly real and richly imagined, to quarry that inexhaustible seam, the simple yet profound life lessons that come from farming. This is <b>a wise and humane book, a book to lift our spirits in grim times</b>

- Michael Wood,

<i>Twelve Sheep</i> is what I call <b>a real book, an honest book</b>. I can hear John Connell's voice lilting off the page, and telling me the many truths he has discovered: truths I need to know, and everyone needs to know.

- Rosamund Young,

Sheep, and sheep farming, are far more interesting than you think

- Tim Flannery,

I usually view rural Ireland from a train or car window but reading this <b>gripping, fascinating</b> book I felt I was becoming a cattle farmer

- Roddy Doyle on THE COW BOOK,

A <b>vivid and sharply observed</b> account of a way of life which is almost invisible, a new hidden Ireland. It is also a fascinating portrait of a single sensibility, a born noticer, someone on whom nothing is lost, observing birth and death, the landscape and his own heritage

- Colm Tóibín on THE COW BOOK,

A gorgeous read, <b>full of warmth, truth and tentative wonder.</b> John Connell has written "an elegy to the nature I know", but this book is an elegy to so much more - to art and myth and sorrow and longing

- Sara Baume on THE COW BOOK,