Till the Cows Come Home: the bestselling memoir from a beloved presenter
About this audiobook
Till the Cows Come Home is DJ and TV presenter Sara Cox's wonderfully written, funny coming of age memoir of growing up in 1980s Lancashire.
The youngest of five siblings, Sara grew up on her father's cattle farm surrounded by dogs, cows, horses, fields and lots of 'cack'. The lanky kid sister - half girl, half forehead - a nuisance to the older kids, the farm was her very own dangerous adventure playground, 'a Bolton version of Narnia'.
Her writing conjures up a time of wagon rides and haymaking and agricultural shows, alongside chain smoking pensioners, cabaret nights at the Conservative club and benign parenting. Sara's love of family, of the animals and the people around them shines through on every page. Unforgettable characters are lovingly and expertly drawn bringing to life a time and place.
Sara later divided her childhood days between the beloved farm and the pub she lived above with her mother, these early experiences of freedom and adventure came to be the perfect training ground for later life.
This funny, big-hearted and often moving telling of Sara Cox's semi rural upbringing is not what you'd expect from the original ladette, and one of radio's most enduring and well loved presenters.
(P)2019 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
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About the author
Sara Cox is known and loved by millions of BBC Radio 2 listeners, where she presents her teatime show every weekday from 4-7 p.m. She developed a passion for broadcasting at BBC Radio 1 and presented the Breakfast Show for four years, reaching eight million listeners. Sara hosts the popular weekly TV book programme Between the Covers on BBC Two and is a regular co-host on BBC One's Morning Live. Other BBC TV work includes Back in Time for..., The Great Pottery Throwdown, the dating series Love in the Countryside, and Britain's Top Takeaways. Sara's TV career began with The Girlie Show, and she's gone on to present numerous shows for the BBC, ITV and Channel 4. She is a regular co-presenter of BBC Radio 4's Loose Ends and has written columns for the Mirror and the Guardian. Her memoir Till the Cows Come Home (2018) was a Sunday Times bestseller, as was her hugely successful debut novel Thrown (2022). Sara lives with her family in north London. She stays in tune with her farming background by having too many pets and riding her horse, Nelly.
