The tale of a year-long journey from straight-talking, hard-bitten journalist
to green goddess – complete with fabulous recipes and experimental
disasters – all told in a smart, funny and self deprecating fashion.
Wendyl Nissen is well-known as a straight talking journalist whose career has
seen her edit top-selling magazines, produce ground-breaking television
documentaries and take on talkback radio callers without batting a heavily
made-up eyelid. But what happened when she let three chickens called Marigold,
Hillary and Yoko into her life on 24 October 2008–
A Home Companion details Wendyl's year-long journey towards self
sufficiency. The book details each home discovery as it happens – both the
triumphs and the disasters – while Wendyl slowly sheds her corporate life and
takes to wearing yards of muslin, leather sandals and forgets to straighten
her hair.
A Home Companion is the book for any woman who finds herself yearning to get
her hands covered in soil, rid her house of nasty chemicals, nurture her family
and become a green goddess – even if it's just at the weekends.
About Wendyl Nissen
Wendyl Nissen is a journalist and broadcaster who writes popular columns in
the Herald on Sunday, the New Zealand Woman's Weekly and New Zealand Gardener.
She is also the creator of her own Wendyl's Green Goddess brand of natural
cleaning products. Her catchphrase is ‘It's okay to be a Nana’.