4 Stars from me
I simply loved this! Gordon Slee is a superb character and I loved everything about him, even his name is spot on!
This has all the makings of a book that will turned into a TV drama, possibly shown on Boxing Day, and immediately becoming a British cult classic!
It’s silly, it’s serious, it captures the charm of relationships – with people and animals and has some strong emotional messages neatly tucked away under a sweet story.
Knowing that this sits on a true covenant makes it all the more charming, there are some truly bonkers bits of English law still in force and I love the absurdity of this one!
This is a charming, quintessentially English tale with hints of love, family drama, grief and so much more is an absolute delight and I would recommend it to everyone and anyone!
My thanks to the author and Rachel’s Random Resources for my place on this blog tour.
Blurb: Gordon Slee fears he was never meant to be born. Anxious since childhood after hearing he was an accident, the forty-two-year-old is still struggling to escape the shadow of his high-achieving family.
But a glimmer of hope is on the horizon – a huge promotion within his hotel group is up for grabs, and he is sure that his time has come to make a mark on the world.
However, within his own department, redundancies are afoot. He may lose his job before he gets the chance. Until he learns of a historic covenant that preserves the right for sheep to run through the company’s top London hotel. Could he convince his boss that he’s the man to save the hotel from catastrophe?
Up in Bryn Nefyn, North Wales, live the descendants of the covenant owner. The elderly sheep farmer and his aging hippy brother could use the money the hotel might offer. But along with their strong-willed American shepherdess, they laugh at Gordon’s attempts to negotiate a deal. Surely, they couldn’t use a covenant that’s been forgotten about for over a hundred years.
Or could they?
For lovers of upmarket commercial fiction with a touch of romance and comedy, The Approval of Sheep is an uplifting story about family and love, overcoming adversity and discovering our reason for our place in this world.
