Twenty Chickens for a Saddle

{{short description|2008 memoir by Robyn Scott}}

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| author = Robyn Scott

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| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

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| publisher = Bloomsbury Publishing

| release_date = May 6, 2008

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| media_type = Print (Hardback)

| pages = 464 pp (first edition, hardback)

| isbn = 0-7475-9596-8

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| oclc= 191890812

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Twenty Chickens for a Saddle: The Story of an African Childhood is a 2008 memoir by British author Robyn Scott.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/11/books/review/Mabry-t.html?_r=0|title = I Had a Funny Farm in Africa|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 11 May 2008|last1 = Mabry|first1 = Marcus}}{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/non_fictionreviews/3553819/An-African-childhood.html|title=An African childhood|date=7 June 2008|work=Telegraph.co.uk}}{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/alfred-and-emily-by-doris-lessing-brtwenty-chickens-for-a-saddle-by-robyn-scott-828942.html|title=Alfred and Emily, by Doris Lessing - Twenty Chickens for a Saddle, by Robyn Scott|work=The Independent|date=23 October 2011}}