English Summary/英文概要： A heart-warming and humorous look at nature and motherhood by the most successful crime writers of recent years

I have always loved the Cotswolds. I think I loved them even before I found them, in that half-formed ideal one has of where to put down roots. Somewhere peaceful, green, where the road meanders between drystone walls and from town to town, and a strip of blue bursts from brook to river and back again.

For 8 years, Clare Mackintosh wrote for Cotswold Life about the ups and downs of life with a young family in the countryside. In this memoir she brings together all of those stories - and more - for the first time. From keeping chickens to getting the WI drunk, longing for an Aga to dealing with nits, Clare opens the door to family life with warmth and humour and heart.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 我一直很喜欢科茨沃尔德。我想我在找到这处世外桃源之地之前就对之心之向往，在尚未成形之前，我可以在此安家。这是一片祥和宁静的绿草如茵的地方，道路在干石墙间蜿蜒曲折，从一个小镇至另一个小镇， 蓝色的小溪如绸带般流淌至河流，又从河流返回到小溪。

8年来，克莱尔麦金托什(Clare Mackintosh)为《科茨沃尔德田园诗般的生活》讲述了她和一个年轻家庭在乡下生活的起起落落。在这部回忆录中个，她第一次将所有这些故事，甚至更多的故事，汇聚在一起。从养鸡到喝醉，渴望能一劳永逸地对付虱子，作者以温馨，诙谐和暖心的文笔为读者打开了一扇通向乡村家庭生活的大门。(Sandy)

Awards/获奖情况： Clare Mackintosh is the bestselling author of psychological thrillers full of dark and menacing twists, turns and surprise shocks. Here, in a collection of columns from Cotswold Life magazine, the villains are head lice on the scalps of her three children and the red mites that besiege her chickens . . . The gentle, wry humour has genuinely laugh-out-loud moments . . . Her columns are heartfelt and poignant, adding emotional depth to breezy, blithe accounts (Sunday Express)