Urban Dreams, Rural Realities: In Pursuit of the Good Life - Couverture rigide

Butler, Daniel; Crewe, Bel

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0684819805 ISBN 13 : 9780684819808

Editeur : Simon & Schuster Ltd, 1998

Synopsis

Bel Crewe enjoyed a comfortable life in Notting Hill, safe in her world of parties, restaurants and delicatessens. Daniel Butler, her boyfriend, was a freelance journalist disillusioned with city existence. Against her better judgement, and six months pregnant, Crewe agreed to go with him in pursuit of a rural idyll in the wilds of Wales. Told in contrasting voices by each of the pair in turn, this is a humorous account of their first year in the back of beyond. Juxtaposing the fantasy and the reality of an attempt to live "The Good Life", it recalls Crewe's despair at being an hour from the nearest supermarket, and Butler's evangelistic delight at their spartan living conditions and ever-growing menagerie.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

URBAN DREAMS...Daniel Butler and Bel Crewe are increasingly dissatisfied with the direction of their lives. First they find each other; then they fantasise about the great escape. Fired by Daniel's dream of self-sufficiency and spurred on by Bel's pregnancy, they sell their London flats to buy a remote and dilapidated farmhouse high up in the Welsh hills.
RURAL REALITIES...It is New Year's Eve, and Bel is six months pregnant. It has been raining for two months and the locals talk of a big freeze. They have no waterproof clothing and no form of heat. Bel is desperate, but Daniel is in paradise. As tensions inevitably show, surely things can only get better...?

Biographie de l'auteur

Daniel Butler is a 33 year-old freelance journalist who writes regularly for the nationals and several periodicals. He also has a monthly column about the trials of self-sufficiency in Country Living. His first book, THE RED TAIL: SPENDING THE SEASONS WITH A HAWK was published in 1994.
Bel Crewe is 32 and spent most of her life in London. She travelled extensively before embarking on an art history degree as a mature student at University College London. She met Dan on graduating and they moved up to Wales where Bel is a passionate horiticulturist and mycologist. They have two children.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0684819805
• ISBN 13: 9780684819808
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible