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Martin Kirby - No Going Back: Journey to Mother´s Garden - 9780751535488 - KLN0018145
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No Going Back: Journey to Mother´s Garden

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Description for No Going Back: Journey to Mother´s Garden Paperback. 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.. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DSE; BGA; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 125 x 23. Weight in Grams: 240.

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, compelling 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-holdings business. ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780751535488
SKU
KLN0018145
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-2

About Martin Kirby
Martin Kirby is the former deputy editor of the Eastern Daily Press and is a regular contributor to a number of newspapers in the United Kingdom.

Reviews for No Going Back: Journey to Mother´s Garden
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

Goodreads reviews for No Going Back: Journey to Mother´s Garden


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