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Country Life
- A Story of Peaks and Troughs
- Narrated by: Giles Wood, Mary Killen
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
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The Nutty Idyll
Former townies Giles and Mary swapped city life for rural Wiltshire over thirty years ago, and they've each embraced it in their own very different ways.
Mary has happily traded sophisticated London salons for monthly lectures at the Farmers' Club, competitive school quizzes, church interactions and local Auction House sales. While Giles has immersed himself in the catastrophic consequences of conventional farming, his organic no-dig veg-patch, the increasingly disproportionate response by local landlords to harmless trespassers and the strange death of the village house martins.
For recent city escapees and indigenous country folk alike, Giles and Mary sift through the unhelpful dreamy myths and offer a practical reality, with robust back and forth on every aspect of life in rural outposts, including but not limited to planning wars, class wars, dog thefts, tree-felling fights, misunderstandings between incomers and natives and the role of the Heron Appreciation Society.
The much-loved Wiltshire couple share their combined, hard-earned lessons, so we can learn the secret skills of grumbling and bumbling our way towards a new contented country life.
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- paula rockett
- 02-04-24
Sharing their story
Very interesting and informative..an inside view of the Giles and Marys lives in Wiltshire and beyond.
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- Ab
- 06-05-23
Simply lovely
A wonderfully wholesome and fascinating look into country Life with Giles and Mary interspersed with references to their first book which I enjoyed in equal measure. Ten out of ten.
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- R Roach
- 08-03-24
Another good audio
Love Giles and Mary. This second audiobook doesn’t disappoint. Hope they do another in the future
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- Anonymous User
- 25-06-23
Love these two
I find Giles and Mary fabulous story tellers and could listen for hours them recounting moments from their lives or views
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- GD
- 30-08-23
Honestly, just lovely and surprising
So glad I listened to this. It not only explores country life and "indigini" versus city decampers, as described, but it also delves into the family past of Giles and Mary, their contrasting heritages; and also the effects of the Pandemic on attitudes on where and how best to live your life. Really well read by them both too. Thought-provoking easy listening
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- K. Faulkner
- 06-05-23
Country Life
As a young girl all my time was spent in a rural idyll. Freedom, small local farms were my life.Haymaking,,, anddriving the tractor from a very young age. Country lanes, no street lights, quite happy to play outside all day. How lucky to be born in 1947. This book has been a joy to read. Thank you Giles andMary.
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- Anonymous User
- 07-05-23
So enjoyed it
Hugely entertaining, very funny,so enjoyed it. The same could be said for so many villages More please.
Diana francis
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