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Lambing Season In Ireland- Tales of a Vet's Wife by Maria Coffey |
In the winter of 1998, Maria Coffey and her veterinarian husband Dag Goering left Canada to spend February to May in County Kerry, on the West Coast of Ireland. Dag, who would be helping the local vet in Cahersiveen during the busy lambing and calving season, was filled with excitement. But Maria was anxious about the move - she has an Irish background and for her this was a return to the past, a meeting with old ghosts. In A Lambing Season in Ireland she recounts how her initial attack of 'cold feet' turned to courtship and finally blossomed into a full-blown love affair with the Iveragh Peninsula and its people. She writes beautifully about the rugged landscape, her adventures as 'the Canadian vet's wife' and how her pet lamb, Dora, helped her make the transition from being a 'blow-in' to a local. This humorous and often moving tale is one to be savoured, as Maria and Dag bump across the landscape to various farms, pubs and fairs on the their tiny, adoptive part of rural Ireland. Review comment: "I'm thankful to BC's Maria Coffey for A Lambing Season in Ireland. She captures the essence of the place in describing the details of everyday life...She intersperses myths and politics in the way they really matter, on a personal and local level. So itís a very genuine book, and such books don't come along very often." - Toronto Star, May 2000 |
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