"If it's a hole in his memory we ought to stop it up with more memories," said Cordelia. And though, obviously, these aren't your average sheep, they don't think like woolly humans either: It is because we see through their eyes that we know, long before any of the humans, that two characters are related – the sheep can at once tell that they have the same smell. We are very much in the sheep viewpoint, in that there is no scene at which sheep are not present, though, being humans, we sometimes see what we are watching differently from them. And no, it isn't aimed at children or young adults, nor, though it has richly comic elements, is it purely comedy. This unmissable book is a murder mystery, in which the detectives happen to be a flock of Irish sheep (I knew I was going to like it from the moment I read the list of "Dramatis Oves").
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