Genre: Adult Non-Fiction – Autobiography
Published: 2021
Format: Audiobook
Rating: ★★★★
Jeremy Clarkson has always been a contentious figure. He says what he thinks without sugar-coating it, and we get the same here when he starts his own farm. What ensues is quite a lot of hilarity, but also with some sobering reflections on the life of a farmer and the world during a pandemic and economic crisis.
I’ve never seen Clarkson’s Farm with it being on Prime, but I would love to! Listening to the audiobook, which is actually read by Clarkson himself, you can really hear his quirky humour coming through and you can tell when he is really frustrated or finds it hilarious. He calls sheep “sheeps” and trout “trouts” which is just such a Clarkson thing to do, reminiscent of Top Gear, I thought. Seeing sheep as teenage boys was an intriguing thought.
The book was originally columns in a Sunday newspaper and you can tell he’s writing about what’s been happening that week or what’s been on his mind, and when he reads the audiobook there are little interjections like, well this doesn’t happen anymore, or it’s not worth this much anymore, which I don’t know if they appear in the actual book, but I enjoyed his interjections on his own writing.
Clarkson is a brilliant writer, engaging, humorous and with a wry outlook on the world. It all comes together in this book which is just lovely to listen to in order to make something you don’t want to pass over in a much more enjoyable way!
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