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A comic coming-of-age story set in Central Otago, New Zealand. Sweet, fat, theatrical Billy-Boy was never cut out to be a farmer, but as his father's only son, he's obliged to try. It's not much fun: the cows are wayward and the chores are grueling. But Billy finds escape in a fantasy world where the turnip paddock becomes a lunar landscape and Billy can become Judy Robinson, heroine of TV's Lost in Space. And the paddock isn't the only object of Billy's fantasy: so is the sexy new workboy on his father's farm. Graeme Aitken's funny, poignant novel has now been made into a film.
Paperback, 241 pages, orig. published 1995, this edition 2005
Author: Graeme Aitken