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Till the Cows Come Home

Sara Cox

THE UPLIFTING AND HEARTWARMING LOVE LETTER TO FAMILY AND THE GREAT OUTDOORS

'Cox is a natural storyteller... she brings that authentic voice to bear in her memoir. The tone is so intimate chatty and friendly so you feel as though she could be sitting next to you' Hannah Beckerman Daily Express

'endearing engaging and very funny' Mirror

'Coxy's memoir about growing up on a farm is as funny as you'd expect genuinely touching and has some excellent 80s and 90s details. Her love of animals is infectious' Alexandra Heminsley Grazia

'The book is like a big warm hug full of local characters and misadventures' Sophie Heawood Observer

'Made me laugh out loud...I loved it!' Lynda La Plante

'Glorious springtime haystacks and a herd of cows can all be found in this' Sunday Times Bestseller

'Warm and witty' - Express

A funny and heart-warming love letter to childhood family and growing up.

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.

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  • Classification : Biography & Memoir
  • Pub Date : MAR 5, 2020
  • Imprint : Coronet
  • Page Extent : 320
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9781473672703
  • Price : INR 699
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Sara Cox

Sara Cox is known and loved by millions of BBC Radio 2 listeners, having presented her teatime show for seven years and recently moving over to present the iconic Radio 2 Breakfast Show. She developed a passion for broadcasting on BBC Radio 1, hosting the Breakfast Show there for four years and reaching eight million listeners. She recently won The Best Audio Presenter at the Broadcasting Press Guild Awards.

On TV, Sara hosted the popular weekly book programme Between The Covers on BBC Two and regularly co-hosted BBC Two's Morning Live. Other TV work includes The Great Pottery Throwdown, Back In Time for Tea and Love In The Countryside. She is currently filming the second series of The Marvellous Miniature Workshop for BBC One.

Sara has written columns for The Mirror and The Guardian. Her memoir Till The Cows Come Home was a Sunday Times bestseller, as were her previous novels Thrown and Way Back.

In 2025 Sara raised £11.7 million for Children In Need after running five ultra marathons in five days on her Great Northern Marathon Challenge.

Sara lives with her family in North London and stays in touch with her farming background by having too many pets and riding her horse Nelly.

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