Why a Booktrail?
2000s: The grass is always greener, right?
The Move
What you need to know before your trail
Karen is driving through a strange landscape into a new life. Always a city girl, now she is on her way to an idyllic country cottage, refurbished for her with impeccable taste by her husband Nick. They’re making a fresh start.
But something is awry in the new house – it’s not just the fact that Karen and Nick are ill at ease in one another’s company – that their recent history is far from picture perfect, it’s the whole vibe. The landscape is breathtaking by day, eerie by night. If the countryside is supposed to be a place of peace, far away from curtain-twitchers, who is the person watching them from the hill? And who are their new neighbours?
With Karen only recently emerging from a dark place in her life, can she find the trust in her husband Nick to let go of events that have followed them to their new house?
Travel Guide
Make the Move from London to Gloucestershire
The locations in the novel are vague and unnamed but the move from a big city to the countryside will be familiar or a secret dream of many.
Is the grass greener in the countryside? When you leave life in a big city, can you ever be happy in the calm and peaceful countryside? Is the pat of the countryside you end up the rural idyll you imagine?
To lighted city streets we, too, have known,
But now are giving up for country darkness
(c) Robert Frost
The countryside around them:
” All was quiet except for the sound of birdsong and a branch tapping out a rhythem on the roof..”
Booktrail Boarding Pass: The Move
Destination : London, England Author/Guide: Felicity Everett Departure Time: 2000s
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