As heard on BBC Radio 4&s Book of the Week&A delightful & entertaining memoir& Woman & Home When Jacqueline moves to south-west France with her husband she embraces rural village life & buys two pigs to rear for slaughter But as she gets to know the animals better her English sentimentality threatens to get in the way & she begins to wonder if she can actually bring herself to kill them This is a memoir about that fateful decision but it&s also about the ethics of meat eating in the modern age & whether we should know respect & even love the animals we eat At its heart this book is a love story exploring the increasing attachment of the author for her particular pigs & celebrating the enduring closeness of humans & pigs over the centuries