Can anyone help me identify this ‘rural memoir’ book? One I read in the 70s or 80s and would love to reread. I think it was set post WW2.
Woman (and I think also her husband? Or possibly her parents) move to smallholding /small farm/off grid type of life to a cottage in, I think, rural Wales or Scotland. Book is about their adventures in new lifestyle on very little money. I think set some time between about 1950 and 1970.
I have Elizabeth West’s Hovel in the Hills and all the sequels, and the several farming memoirs by Ruth Janette Ruck (A Place of Stones, etc) , and it’s definitely not any of those.
The one distinctive episode I remember is that the author makes herself a patchwork skirt, as she can’t afford to buy a new one.
Ideas welcome!