The Happy Farmer, Fairs Peter

In a world racked with anxiety and depression the authors attitude to living will inspire many readers. An ordinary man who made himself extraordinary by never accepting failure takes us on a journey through life. As a child, his relatively humble but comfortable beginnings in a tiny Essex village meant work on the farm from a very early age. Boarding school from the age of ten was difficult but character-building and the book demonstrates an optimism so often lacking in the developed world.