Description
Title: The Farm: A Timeless Story of Life on the Land
Author: Ansley, Bruce
Format: Trade Paperback C Format
Publication date: 01/09/2026
Imprint: HARPER COLLINS
ISBN: 9781775543336
The Farm is a lyrical and entertaining journey to the heart of rural life in New Zealand from Bruce Ansley, one of our greatest living writers.
When Bruce visited a friend on a sheep farm on Banks Peninsula, they pointed out a property for sale, down by the water.
Down a drive curving through sycamores, oaks, and rhododendrons, there was a deer farm, with an old white Victorian homestead, overlooking soft green pastures beneath rocky crags – the Western Valley of Koukourarata, or Port Levy.
What followed were all the things one would expect to encounter when a couple from the city fulfills a lifelong dream to own a farm: joy, heartbreak, disaster; the vagaries of weather, animals, and people. All of it made up a way of life that will be recognisable to many who grew up in the country, and anyone who has it still lodged in their psyche.
‘Bruce writes the way I wish everyone could tell a story – with wit, grace, wisdom and good timing. Reading him is like listening to a friend whose eye for detail, ear for a yarn and sense of fun remind you why you became friends in the first place. The Farm puts the heart into heartland and gives us townies a perfect glimpse of life on the other side of the fence.’
– Finlay Macdonald
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