The surviving half of the Two Fat Ladies, Clarissa Dickson Wright is on a new adventure, this time with Sir Johnny, her exhuberant childhood pal. This book accompanies a BBC series.
Clarissa Dickson Wright was one half of the memorable Two Fat Ladies duo. She is the proprietor of the specialist bookshop, The Cooks Bookshop, and lives near Edinburgh.
Sir John Scott farms in Berwickshire. He writes for Farming News and a countryside column for Scotland on Sunday.
Title: Clarissa and the Countryman
Author: Johnny Scott, Clarissa Dickson Wright
ISBN: 9780747232476
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Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
Publication Date: 2000-10-19
Number of Pages: 192
Weight: 0.9211 kg
Deprived of her partner in crime, the inimitable Jennifer Paterson, the Fat Lady teams up with a childhood friend for a book that is an unashamed celebration of the countryside . But let no one think Dickson Wright has been casting around desperately for something new to do: this idea was conceived by her some four years ago but, despite her profile, failed to win TV approval. Then, in the wake of the furore that followed the axing of One Man and His Dog, the only countryside programme on the box, the concept was revived. The book, and the eight-part BBC TV series accompanying it, finds Clarissa, the born townie, and her childhood friend, a country boy brought up on a Lowland sheep farm, trekking the length and breadth of a country threatened by urban and political misunderstanding . Why should Westminster, for example, decide on the future of fox-hunting, a necessary part of country life and not just a rich man's pursuit? This time, we're not taught exotic ways with lamb but, instead, see a hill ewe lambing in a snowstorm. A surprising book, perhaps, and one that aims to show a side of country life with which urban folk are largely unfamiliar.
