****A Sunday Times bestseller*** <br/>***A Times Book of the Year 2017*** <br/> <br/>WITH A FOREWORD BY ALAN BENNETT <br/> <br/>'A lovely, thoughtful little book about the intelligence of cows.' James Rebanks, author of The Shepherd's Life <br/> <br/>Cows are as varied as people. They can be highly intelligent or slow to understand, vain, considerate, proud, shy or inventive. <br/> <br/>Although much of a cow's day is spent eating, they always find time for extra-curricular activities such as babysitting, playing hide and seek, blackberry-picking or fighting a tree. <br/> <br/>This is an affectionate record of a hitherto secret world.