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Nearly everyone, at some point in their lives, considers the prospect of moving to the country. Perhaps the demands of a home-based business could be better financed by downshifting to a rural property or worries about the escalating level of crime on the streets and in the schools might persuade us that our children might fare better living out of town. Signposts for Country Living is a step-by-step guide to finding your dream home, settling down, becoming part of the community and avoiding the pitfalls often experienced by the 'in-comer.' Preparing for the forthcoming transition and putting in that little bit of extra effort at the beginning could just make the transition from 'townie' much more successful and far less painful, rather than just blundering about and trusting to luck. Rejecting the temptation to simply list a patronising catalogue of do's and don'ts, the authors instead adopt the 'magazine approach' of a style both informal and inclusive and draw on the experiences of a wide variety of people with both humour and anecdote. Whatever your reasons for picking up this book in the first place, this is the point at which the idea of moving to the country passes from being an impossible or impractical dream to a realisable plan.

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Both Suzanne Ruthven and Garrett Kelly are country born and bred and, having moved around rural England, Wales and Ireland over the past thirty years, know a thing or two about integrating with local communities. Garrett Kelly is a well-known figure in field sports and the author of Champagne & Slippers, while Suzanne Ruthven is editor of the literary magazine The New Writer and an author with some twenty published titles to her credit, including several on country-lore.

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