Cricket By Candlelight

This is my first book.

It chronicles the progress of me, my wife, Laura, and our pets, from a luxurious and complicated, stress-laden life in the city of Glasgow to our new home in the depths of rural New Zealand.

I trained as a dentist in Scotland and, as the book begins, I am in the process of coming to terms with the notion that our life is too expensive and the stresses too immediate to be sustainable. We decide to sell everything we own and move to a more pastoral life elsewhere.

The deci...