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A Cotswold Family Life

By: Clare Mackintosh
Narrated by: Clare Mackintosh
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From bestselling author Clare Mackintosh, A Cotswold Family Life is a humorous, warm memoir of family life in the countryside

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 8 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.

©2019 Clare Mackintosh (P)2019 Hachette Audio UK Animals Biological Sciences Motherhood Outdoors & Nature Parenting & Families Relationships Science Comedy Witty Heartfelt

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Critic reviews

"Insightful, funny, absorbing." (Prue Leith)

"Original yet totally recognisable." (Katie Fforde)

"Sheer bliss!" (Jill Mansell)
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really loved this book and everything about it. narrating was so good too. can't recommend it high enough

thoroughly enjoyed every minute of this book

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A wonderful listen. A snapshot of family life with all its ups and downs, fun, laughter and love. A lovely community vibe, made me want to go and live amongst these people in the Cotswolds.
Beautifully narrated by the author, I was sad when it came to an end.

A breath of fresh air

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Being read by Clare adds an extra dimension to this slice of family life. Very enjoyable.

Read by the author

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Having just had another week long mini break in the Cotswolds I turned to this audiobook and quite literally added another 12 months on to that week as I could visualise the shear joy the Cotswolds brings to its inhabitants young and old. I wished I’d played it periodically when I was down there but had forgotten it was in my wish list waiting to be bought, So envious of the life she enjoyed there with her family. SPOILER ALERT maybe her sequel to this book will be a Snowdonian Family Life setting out her Welsh year with her now enlarged family. Get cracking Claire I’m counting the days down to its eventual audiobook release!

A Dream Life Well Lived

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A wonderful book and beautifully narrated by the author. Because the chapters are short it's one of those to dip an and out of. What a very sweet family the Mackintosh's are and reminiscent of so many others, Well worth reading or listening to. I loved it.

Brilliant

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