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 !

Not got a clue! Hopefully someone can help x

Is it "wife in the north"?

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 !

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

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.

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

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

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

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).

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

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

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

Or Gillie, then something double barrelled?

Wife in the North is set in Northumberland.

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.

Katherine Stewart 'A Croft in the Hills'?

wasn't the Margaret series was it?

Ghillie Basan, The Moons Our nearest Neighbour ?

x- post!

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

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.

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

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!

Bumply posted first! :o

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.