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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.
NO GOING BACK: Journey to Mother’s Garden is an inspiring memoir and life-changing adventure in the tradition of Carol Drinkwater’s THE OLIVE FARM and Frances Mayes’ UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN.
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.
NO GOING BACK: Journey to Mother’s Garden is an inspiring memoir and life-changing adventure in the tradition of Carol Drinkwater’s THE OLIVE FARM and Frances Mayes’ UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN.
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You won't be able to put it down, it's immensely enjoyable
A thoroughly enjoyable account of the misunderstandings, disasters and triumphs
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