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No
Going Back - Journey to Mother's Garden
“There's
a sign hanging just inside the broad and battered front
door of our ramshackled 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” ...
Ever thought of handing in your notice, quitting the rat
race and heading for the hills? Sorely tempted? Do you want
to read the story of someone who did it? Martin's new paperback
No Going back - Journey to Mother's Garden (Time Warner
Books £6.99, published August 7) is a very candid
and often comical account of how a typical British couple
with two young children took a huge gamble and radically
changed the course of their lives - It tells how they gave
up their careers and home and moved to a small rundown mountain
farm in north east Spain.
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It's
the story of what drove them to turn their world upside
down in search of a different way of living. And it follows
the thread of a common dream - the dream of people feeling
the
pressure of work
and the
relentless
squeeze on family life.
Countless people, both before and after Martin and Maggie
were featured on the very first Channel Four No Going Back
documentary in 2002, have sought their advice and have wanted
to know exactly why and how. Here, in Martin's chronicle
of the highs and lows, fears, tears and fulfilment, you
may find some of the answers.
As well as being a farmer's husband, labourer and full-time
father Martin is a writer, and his monthly 2000-word Mother's
Garden articles are carried in the Yorkshire Post, Eastern
Daily Press and East Anglian Daily Times. He also contributes
a monthly feature for Country Smallholding magazine.
No Going Back - Journey to Mother's Garden is published
by Time Warner (isbn 0-7515-3548-6) and is available through
all bookshops. You
can also order Martin Kirby's book online at :- http://www.amazon.co.uk
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