A "Chicken Memoir!"

Martin Gurdon’s Hen and the Art of Chicken Maintenance is one of those “first chicken memoir” types of books. It is a book about the relationship between human and bird. It chronically describes the daily life of a chicken. This book is surely very entertaining. But it is also very informative – because readers are able to learn things about raising chickens by reading Gurdon’s stories about his chickens.

I love this book. It certainly speaks for me – on the last page, the last sentence of this book, it said, “She’s (the chicken) enjoyed life and we’ve enjoyed her enjoying it. What more could any of us want?”