Product Description

Twenty years ago a young Londoner named Lucy arrived in the Dorset countryside as a rather bemused bride. She knew nothing of the great outdoors and blithely agreed to spend her honeymoon harvesting. Her rural education was to be a fast and frantic one. This is the story of a woman who began rural life in romance, raised a family in the farmyard, was left by her husband just as her name was being made as a columnist for the countryside, and found a whole new life for herself in the hills and valleys she had come to love. Inspired by Lucy Pinney's popular columns for The Times, this bewitching bucolic romp is a glorious combination of Bridget Jones, I Don't Know How She Does It and Gervase Phinn. She became a farmer's wife for love of the farmer, but can Lucy's relationship with the countryside survive two decades, divorce and more mud than she ever dreamed possible?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #105012 in Books
• Published on: 2005-07-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

Review
'Irresistibly funny', Woman & Home

From the Publisher
A memoir from the popular Saturday Times country columnist - the enchanting story of a lifetime love affair with the countryside

About the Author
Lucy Pinney wrote an extremely popular column for The Times, called Country Life, for over four years. With style and wit, Lucy chronicled life in the Devon countryside - from diversifying wives and errant husbands, to lambing seasons and pet foxes - as well as life inside her own, less than perfect, farmhouse kitchen. Now a full-time author, Lucy has previously published two novels.

Customer Reviews

Lessons of Real Life
This is an enchanting story, though possibly more entertaining to read than to have lived through. If Life is Love, and Love is Loss, then Life is ... well, quite. But it does have a happy ending.

A Country Wife is endearingly funny, very touching, occasionally slightly sharp, and utterly unmissable.

A perfect holiday book.
A wonderful, irresistible read that is lively, witty and very touching. If you read Lucy's column when it was in the Times this is much more satisfying because you feel you are getting 'the true story'

A touch depressing
A downbeat look at the struggle to make a living off the land set against the background of the relentless pace of work and failure. True to life but not uplifting. It also depicts the death of a marriage. I was glad to finish it.