A Cotswold Family Life - heart-warming stories of the countryside from the bestselling author

From No.1 Sunday Times bestseller Clare Mackintosh, A Cotswold Family Life is a warm, humorous memoir of family life in the countryside

''Insightful, funny, absorbing'' Prue Leith
''Original yet totally recognisable'' Katie Fforde
''Sheer bliss!'' Jill Mansell
''Heartfelt and poignant''Sunday Express

I have always loved the Cotswolds. I think I loved them even before I found them, in that half-formed ideal one has of where to put down roots. Somewhere peaceful, green, where the road meanders between drystone walls and from town to town, and a strip of blue bursts from brook to river and back again.

For eight years, Clare Mackintosh wrote for Cotswold Life about the ups and downs of life with a young family in the countryside. In this memoir, she brings together all of those stories - and more - for the first time. From keeping chickens to getting the WI drunk, longing for an