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 !

[Skooba]

I've also ordered the original Classic Turkish Cooking, at a daft price as few are available, but it will be interesting to see what she and her DH achieved cooking on a camping stove!

[Skooba]

Have just come back to this thread and seen the Telegraph article. I am impressed at what she has done.

I've now read 'the Moon's our Nearest Neighbour', which was published in 2001. Interesting but I don't know if it's because she is a cookery writer, rather than a story teller, but in it she came over as a bit distant. Told about their life but without great enthusiasm, but perhaps it was written after her DH left. He certainly doesn't figure greatly in it.
Goodness knows who he went off with, there were very few neighbours and friends even mentioned.
The book ends with the children being 3 yrs and 3 months . Amazing to think they are now 19 and 16. And that she still lives there. Winter starts in October and you are snowed up for much of the time. I think I should book some time in the holiday cottage just to see what it's like.

[noschooll4mee]

www.telegraph.co.uk/women/family/raising-my-children-in-the-wilderness---as-a-single-mother/

[Bumply]

I like a google challenge.
The book looks interesting. I'm tempted to buy it now

[noschooll4mee]

Bumply ... my sincere apologies 💐🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼
Thank you so much ... well detected 😀can't wait till read it again

[WankersHacksandThieves]

I know wiggly, I was just acknowledging the previous post in case the poster thought they were being blanked. :)

[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.

[WankersHacksandThieves]

Bumply posted first! :o

[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!

[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

[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.

[noschooll4mee]

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

[wigglybeezer]

x- post!

[wigglybeezer]

Ghillie Basan, The Moons Our nearest Neighbour ?

[LilQueenie]

wasn't the Margaret series was it?

[Mouse510]

Katherine Stewart 'A Croft in the Hills'?

[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.

[BikeRunSki]

Wife in the North is set in Northumberland.

[wigglybeezer]

Or Gillie, then something double barrelled?

[wigglybeezer]

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

[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

[readsalotgirl63]

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

[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).

[Iamtheresurrection]

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

[noschooll4mee]

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