Christine was born in Liverpool, the youngest of three children. Her father died when she was eleven but her mother remarried an American, and the family emigrated when Christine was sixteen. After eight years, one of which was spent at the University of Berkeley, California, Christine returned to England, and two years later she married her childhood sweetheart. In 1995, the couple moved to the Irish Republic with their younger daughter, Tina, and settled in the rural west of the country.
This book tells the story of modern day pioneering. It chronicles a family’s move to rural Ireland in the last decade of the twentieth century, and describes their struggle to begin with nothing and build a home on the side of a valley in the hills of County Clare, using a mixture of stones gather...