While many children grow up with a cat or a dog, Arthur Parkinson grew up with chickens. As a child growing up in an ex-mining town in Nottinghamshire, kids in the playground called him ‘Chicken Boy’ – and now, his eponymous memoir explores how keeping hens has been his sanctuary.
This book is an account of Arthur Parkinson s lifelong obsession with keeping chickens. I can t decide which I loved more - the bits about him or the bits about the chickens.