THE STRUGGLE FOR LIVELIHOOD, LIFESTYLE AND A HOME…
In a review of Catrina Davies' book, ‘Homesick: a woman's search for livelihood and a home’, I highlight parallels with the Australian experience.

Subtitled ‘Why I live in a shed”, Catrina’s is a partial-off-grid lifestyle in the coastal UK. The book ranges over off-grid living unconnected to the main utilities and to her struggle with the local council over living in her shed, what she calls “the obnoxious doctrine” of self-sufficiency, access to land, how she finds jobs including gardening, and surfing the cold UK seas.

Catrina’s is a book that remains relevant, both to the UK where an out of control cost of living crisis is forcing people out of their homes, and to the Australian situation where rents escalating to unreal altitudes and predatory landlords are having the same effect.

He book would interest anyone who follows or practices off-grid living, intentional communities, the struggle to find employment and how she combines these with trying to develop a lifestyle on the coast that includes time for catching a few swells.

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