Named one of the twelve best travel books of 2009 by Worldhum,
Chucking It All exposes the gritty reality behind all those twee
bestsellers which extol the joys of sunny rural idylls. With its
remorseless true-life account of downshifting to a remote Scottish
island, Chucking It All uncovers the frightening realities of
relocating to "a magical island lost in the mists of time" as you
follow the warts-and-all adventures of urban misanthrope, Max
Scratchmann, as he valiantly tries to forge a new life in the
windswept Orkney islands, and grumbles his way through unending
winters with eighteen-hour nights, nocturnal visits from drunken
farmers and booty calls from desperate divorcees. From struggling
to fit in as a temporary postman in a wilderness where houses don't
display numbers or names, to attending drunken country ceilidhs
with the island singles' club, or finding himself up to the neck in
local politics while performing in the village pantomime, Chucking
It All is an urbanite's nightmare and one of the most hilarious
books that you will read this year. Irreverent, sarcastic and
bitingly caustic, Chucking It All still manages to be a grudgingly
affectionate portrait of rural life through the eyes of a cynical
outsider, and is one of the truest accounts of "living the dream"
ever published. "Does for downshifting what Lewinsky did for
Clinton - only much funnier..."
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