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Book Review of Still Life with Chickens: Starting Over in a House by the Sea

Still Life with Chickens: Starting Over in a House by the Sea
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Helpful Score: 4


An adorable little book about a woman newly separated and starting over in a small cottage by the sea. While she moved world's away from her current home in a posh neighborhood on the East coast, in truth she moved only a mile away to a small run-down cottage in a workman's neighborhood. Six adorable baby chicks were purchcased in hopes of enticing her 12-year-old daughter to move with her -- the daughter who did not want to live in a grey house in a ramshackle neighborhood! The story progresses from there and the adventures she experiences with the chickens are priceless. In the end she realizes that the chickens helped make the transition for her and her daughter into a new life.