“Just A Couple Of Chickens” is a genuinely enjoyable read - Laugh out loud funny, informative and utterly timely.

It is a poignant and very real story of one family's poultry raising adventure during a five-year crucible of economic and identity crisis that took on national relevance when their contracting business collapsed under the first wave of the economic crash in 2008. Their story hits home with heart-breaking reality.

While getting a couple of chickens may have been Andrew's idea, Corinne took it over the top with thirty fluffy pheasant, five and twenty chickens, over forty Chukar, and fifteen ducklings. There were twelve smelly quail, nine girl geese, two roosters, and a partridge in a pine tree.