Melissa Kite Melissa Kite

Real life | 3 November 2016

The bonfire in front of my dream cottage looks suspiciously like the site of a sacrificial offering to the gods

issue 05 November 2016

For three months after I move to the country, I am told, I am going to be in the most almighty panic.

I will ask myself repeatedly what on earth I have done. I will have sleepless nights worrying that I should never have left London. I will wake in a sweat in the early hours gripped by the idea that I cannot possibly survive now I am not ten minutes’ walk from the Northcote Road.

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