Letters from Wingfield Farm

By Dan Needles

Book Overview

Walt Wingfield has decided to live the life many a city-dweller dreams of - moving to the country and buying a farm. Quitting his job as a Toronto stockbroker, Walt buys a hundred-acre farm on the edge of the Canadian Shield and determines to make a living using only two old racehorses and a single-furrow plow. In a series of letters to the editor of the local newspaper, Walt chronicles his struggles, modest successes and spectacular failures. The final crisis comes in his third year on the land, when he must decide whether to give it all up and return to the world of finance that he knows best. In this Canadian classic, Dan Needles has brought to life a marvelously evocative rural community. Walt Wingfield's brave attempt to embrace a less complicated world constitutes the triumph of a clear-eyed spirit over human frailty and opens the door to a world lost to most.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1552634272
• ISBN13: 9781552634271
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Key Porter Books
• Length: 171 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

This book is darling

I love this book. Written in a "letter to a friend" style, each one relates Walt Wingfield's adventure of the day back home to his friend Ed. Walt is a former CEO of a big city brokerage house, who gave it all up to live the country life as a farmer. He's now married to Maggie, one of the small town's locals. I found myself rolling my eyes along with Maggie, as Walt tries to relate to the cast of quirky, but homespun charaters that populate Persephone Township and the comic misadventures that ensue. I wasn't aware of the first book, Letters from Wingfield Farm, when I picked this one up to read, but it is definitely next on my reading list.