A Pig Called Alice: The Story of One Man and his Hog

by Paul Heiney

For almost a decade, broadcaster Paul Heiney shared his life with a pig called Alice on his farm in Suffolk. It was an often tempestuous relationship, although ultimately a very loving one. Over the years, after observing Alice’s ways and those of her many offspring, he came to see that pigs had ways of ordering their lives from which we could all learn. Live Like a Pig is the story of his years with Alice, the finest pig that ever lived. He tells the tales of her adventures with new-born piglets, the visiting boar, the escapes and recaptures, the day she took hold of his trousers and said, ‘come here, you’re all mine now!’ And how he escaped in the nick of time. This is a celebration of one particular pig, who understood far more about contentment than many of us.

192 pages, Hardcover

Published February 1, 2020

Reviews

[Jayne · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 stars

I really enjoyed this book but I am interested in Victorian farming and farm animals in general. It is about the author's relationship with his first pig. It is broken up into short chapters as they were orginally from the author's column in The Times.