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A moving and hilarious fish-out-of-water memoir of a millennial leaving his inner-city life to take over the family farm.

‘For any reader desiring to understand contemporary rural Australia,  this entertaining and important book is a must-read ... Refreshingly  honest, acutely observed, witty, lyrical and delightfully ironic, My Father and Other Animals is a pure delight.’ —Charles Massy, author of Call of the Reed Warbler

Sam Vincent is a twenty-something writer in the inner suburbs,  scrabbling to make ends meet, when he gets a call from his mother: his  father has stuck his hand in a woodchipper, but ‘not to worry – it  wasn’t like that scene in Fargo or anything’. When Sam returns to the  family farm to help out, his life takes a new and unexpected direction.

Whether castrating a calf or buying a bull – or knocking in a hundred  fence posts by hand when his dad hides…