kiwikathleen 's review for:

Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann
4.0

This book is very clever. It's written along the lines of an Agatha Christie "Miss Marple", but is all from the point of view of a flock of hand-picked assorted breed sheep. Their shepherd is found dead with a spade pinning him to the ground, and Miss Maple, the cleverest sheep in Glennkill and possibly the whole world, is determined that they should discover who the murderer is.

What is espeically clever is the way that these sheep are, apart from being able to understand everything humans say, sheep. Well, of course, I don't really know how sheep think or what their sense of smell tells them (apart from where the tasty grass is) but their actions are certainly like real sheep and their thoughts etc come across very sheep-like. I've recommended this to a number of my friends and family already.