Simple Life Essentials

Are you willing to trade in your company BMW for a third-hand van? How about swapping your Manolo Blahnik mules for a pair of wellies, and not even green ones, at that? Would you know what to do with a vegetable that was covered in earth instead of cling film?

Lawrence Langland certainly would. Tired of corporate politics and fifteen-hour workdays, he yearns for a simpler, better quality of life. To his surprise, his wife Isobel, who proudly displays a gold-plated keyring inscribed with 'Born to Shop', also wants to escape. This is good news for their eight-year-old son Jacob, who can leave his horrid boarding school. However, it will take more convincing to get their elder daughter Dory on board, although she perks up when she learns there are boys in the countryside too.

So, the Langland family becomes “downshifters,” trading a comfortable house for a small cottage and suburbia for the pleasures – and the challenges – of country life. Making the decision was easy. But can they handle the reality?

Praise for Elizabeth Harris: “Enormously enjoyable...hard to put down. Elizabeth Harris writes with sensitivity and skill and a spine-chilling eye for the sinister” - Barbara Erksine, author of Lady of Hay

Elizabeth Harris was born in Cambridge and raised in Kent, where she currently resides. After graduating, she held various jobs, including driving a van, lifeguarding, and working in the Civil Service. She has extensively traveled throughout Europe and America and lived for several years in the Far East. Elizabeth Harris was one of the finalists of the 1989 Ian St James Awards.

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