Help me find this book please

[noschooll4mee]

Posted this in the Book section but no response . Thought Scottish Mums might be able to help .
Can you please, please help me identify this book from my vague description? I have honestly Googled and searched for months .
It's a book about a husband and wife who , giving up city life, buy a remote cottage /Croft in the Highlands of Scotland and rebuild it themselves. Tales of snow , no electricity , carrying supplies 2miles up the track etc . Their story (book) is written by the wife and I seem to think she was a journalist or writer.
I would have read it around 2001-2003/4 .
I think there was an subsequent story about how husband had affair and left her for another woman in community and wife had gone back to city /journalism .
Possibly "Moon" in the title ..though that may be wrong.
Thank you for reading . Please help !

[Groovee]

Not got a clue! Hopefully someone can help x

[PopGoesTheFuckingWeasel]

Is it "wife in the north"?

[readsalotgirl63]

Hi - this sounds vaguely familiar and I think may have been written by a journalist who had a column in the Glasgow Herald. I have a recollection of reading an extract and there being info about the book being published. The title may have been "from somewhere to the moon" or " moon over somewhere".
I did think it was the cookery writer Gizzi Erskine but having googled there is no mention of such a book on her website. Sorry can't be of more help !

[Zogthebiggestdragon]

Bits of this sound vaguely like an Isla Dewar book - consequences of marriage maybe?

[RapunzelsSplitEnds]

Would the book be written by Ridgeways? John and I cannot remember his wife's name but they set up an Outdoor Bound school in a remote area on the West Coast.

[HowDoYouDrinkYourTea]

I'm not sure but if mumsnet has no joy try here www.reddit.com/r/whatsthatbook/

[noschooll4mee]

Great suggestions ! Thankso for your ideas ,I'll start checking them out x

[Iamtheresurrection]

Was Fiona Gibson the Herald journalist? She used to write for just 17 in my teenage years.

[prettybird]

Fiona Gibson lives/lived in the Borders, so I don't think it's her (she used to be a MNer - no idea of she still is).

[readsalotgirl63]

Hi - have had another google - is it House by the shore by Alison Johnstone ?

[noschooll4mee]

Hello everyone , sorry for delays in getting back to you I had switched off any notifications none of those unfortunately. Fiona Gibson seems too happily married - the author's marriage broke up .
Driving me nuts !
Thank you fr valiant efforts

[wigglybeezer]

I've read it! My memory is bad but the name will surface eventually. Moon rings a bell and the name Gilly?

[wigglybeezer]

Or Gillie, then something double barrelled?

[BikeRunSki]

Wife in the North is set in Northumberland.

[Bumply]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B00G4PVJHI/ref=mpssa113?ie=UTF8&qid=1484159697&sr=1-3&pi=ACSX2366SY340QL65&keywords=Ghillie+Basan&dpPl=1&dpID=41b4-ngA7hL&ref=plSrch

Is it this one?
Written in 2001 and she's single now.

[Mouse510]

Katherine Stewart 'A Croft in the Hills'?

[LilQueenie]

wasn't the Margaret series was it?

[wigglybeezer]

Ghillie Basan, The Moons Our nearest Neighbour ?

[wigglybeezer]

x- post!

[noschooll4mee]

Wigglybreeze ..that's it !!! Thank you so much 💐❤💐❤💐

[readsalotgirl63]

Wow - well done wiggly ! Did she write for the Herald or am I imagining that? I did think the first name started with G - that's why I thought it might be Gizzi Erskine. I'm so pleased someone came up with the correct title - these things drive me nuts which is why I now keep a list of all the books I read.

[MistressMaisie]

I think this is the cottage - or is attached to the original cottage.

www.unique-cottages.co.uk/cottages/highlands/aberdeen-morayshire/dt4-corrunich-cottage

[wigglybeezer]

I have a lifelong ambition to buy a croft, sheep and highland pony, but DH is not an animal person and would probably divorce me if I did!

[WankersHacksandThieves]

Bumply posted first! :o

[wigglybeezer]

And she managed to do a link! I didn't see her post cos I was dishing up tea or I would have acknowledged it.