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A Cotswold Family Life

heart-warming stories of the countryside from the bestselling author
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A Cotswold Family Life by Clare Mackintosh is a heartfelt memoir chronicling the author's journey as she and her family settle into rural life in the picturesque Cotswolds. It reflects on the joys and challenges of adapting to a countryside existence, where Mackintosh captures the essence of family, community, and the trials of everyday life with warmth and humour.
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This book may appeal to you if you enjoy heartwarming and candid tales about family life set against the charming backdrop of the English countryside. It offers insight into the ups and downs of parenting, balancing work and personal life, all delivered with warmth and humour. Those who appreciate thoughtful memoirs exploring the beauty of everyday moments might find this particularly engaging.

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A humorous, warm memoir of family life in the countryside from No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author Clare Mackintosh

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From No.1 Sunday Times bestseller Clare Mackintosh, A Cotswold Family Life is a warm, humorous memoir of family life in the countryside.

'Insightful, funny, absorbing' - Prue Leith

'Original yet totally recognisable' - Katie Fforde

'Sheer bliss!' - Jill Mansell

'Heartfelt and poignant' - Sunday Express

I have always loved the Cotswolds. I think I loved them even before I found them, in that half-formed ideal one has of where to put down roots. Somewhere peaceful, green, where the road meanders between drystone walls and from town to town, and a strip of blue bursts from brook to river and back again.

For eight years, Clare Mackintosh wrote for Cotswold Life about the ups and downs of life with a young family in the countryside. In this memoir, she brings together all of those stories - and more - for the first time. From keeping chickens to getting the WI drunk, longing for an Aga to dealing with nits, Clare opens the door to family life with warmth and humour and heart.

Have you read Clare Mackintosh's bestselling fiction? A Game of Lies, her new smart and twisty thriller, is out now.

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A Cotswold Family Life by Clare Mackintosh is praised for being insightful, funny, and absorbing. Readers find her tales of family life in the country to be both original and relatable, with a brilliant mix of humour and emotion. The stories, originally columns from Cotswold Life magazine, offer gentle and wry humour with genuine laugh-out-loud moments, underpinned by heartfelt and poignant reflections.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780751575569

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 11 May 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Sphere

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 26.0mm

Width: 126.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 276g

Pages: 352

About the Author

Clare Mackintosh is a police officer turned crime writer, and the multi-award-winning author of seven Sunday Times bestselling novels. Translated into forty languages, her books have sold more than two million copies worldwide and have spent a combined total of sixty-eight weeks in the Sunday Times bestseller chart. Clare lives in North Wales with her husband and their three children.

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