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One for the books

We’ll get to her novels in a minute. And life on the 450ha Otorohanga farm that’s been in her family for three generations. But first, Danielle Hawkins wants to talk about a morning spent massaging a bull’s penis.

“I had to remove warts from it,” says the part-time vet. “You massage the bull’s nether regions and then you can burn the warts off. It’s a brilliant way to get your head kicked in by an angry, amorous bull!”

Fortunately, Danielle didn’t get her head kicked in. But it did give her plenty of fodder for her fifth novel, Two Shakes of a Lamb’s Tale: The.

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