<p><b><h3>From No.1 <i>Sunday Times </i>bestseller Clare Mackintosh, <i>A Cotswold Family Life </i>is a warm, humorous memoir of family life in the countryside</h3></b><br>''Insightful, funny, absorbing'' <b>Prue Leith</b><br>''Original yet totally recognisable'' <b>Katie Fforde</b><br>''Sheer bliss!'' <b>Jill Mansell</b><br>''Heartfelt and poignant''<b><i>Sunday Express</i></b><br><br><i><h3>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.</h3></i><br>For eight years, Clare Mackintosh wrote for <i>Cotswold Life </i>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