Gordon Slee fears he was never meant to be born.Anxious since childhood after hearing he was an accident, theforty-two-year-old is still struggling to escape the shadow of hishigh-achieving family. But a glimmer of hope is on the horizon – a hugepromotion within his hotel group is up for grabs, and he is sure that his timehas come to make a mark on the world. However, within his own department, redundancies areafoot. He may lose his job before he gets the chance. Until he learns of ahistoric covenant that preserves the right for sheep to run through thecompany’s top London hotel. Could he convince his boss that he’s the man tosave the hotel from catastrophe?Up in Bryn Nefyn, North Wales, live the descendantsof the covenant owner. The elderly sheep farmer and his aging hippy brothercould use the money the hotel might offer. But along with their strong-willedAmerican shepherdess, they laugh at Gordon’s attempts to negotiate a deal.Surely, they couldn’t use a covenant that’s been forgotten about for over ahundred years. Or could they?For lovers of upmarket commercial fiction with atouch of romance and comedy, The Approval of Sheep is an uplifting story aboutfamily and love, overcoming adversity and discovering our reason for our placein this world.
