In reality she was so overwhelmed by the prospect of moving 130 miles west of London to a tiny speck of a village in the country that it took her two months to pluck up the courage to pack her bags, say goodbye to her rented one-bedroom flat in Surbiton, and move into her three-bedroom stone cottage in Hardington Mandeville, Somerset.
London leaver: ‘it took months to pluck up the courage to leave Surbiton for a new life in Somerset’
