Short description
The story of an ordinary couple with young children escaping from rat-race Britain to a smallholding in northern Spain, from financial security to fresh air but hard toil and no money...
Long description
There's a sign hanging just inside the broad and battered front door of our ramshackle farmhouse that reads 'Deu Vos Guard'. On the day we bought our tiny patch of Catalonia a new friend who lives across the valley laughingly translated it as God Help You. So begins Martin Kirby's candid and often comic account of how he and his wife, a typical British couple with two young children, give up their careers, home and stable life in England to move to a small rundown mountain farm in Catalonia and turn it into a viable small-holding business.
Review
'A thoroughly enjoyable account of the misunderstandings, disasters and triumphs' WOMAN AND HOME 'You won't be able to put it down, it's immensely enjoyable' GLASGOW EVENING TIMES 'Hilarious, moving and cautionary, written in a breezy journalese that makes it one of the best holiday yarns around' WHAT'S ON IN LONDON