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What’s the secret ingredient to a happy move from the city to the country? Courage? Naivety? For one London family, it was finding their CWTCH. Intrigued? Follow author Marcie Layton and her young family on a journey of discovery, as they trade their suburban home for a remote cottage in North Wales. Their love of the countryside is also a journey of self-discovery, as they find happiness and friendship in unexpected places.

Moving house is never easy. But for one English family, making the change from suburban London to rural Wales unearthed more than they’d bargained for. A Life Lived Behind Glass is a true account of a journey into the world of autism, its diagnosis, the discovery of a history of family members on the spectrum, and acceptance and understanding of the condition. Marcie writes about her own struggle with autism, her childhood experiences, and the process of adult diagnosis. She describes the joy of home education and supporting her family’s unique needs.

It wasn’t just the party in the marquee, in the snow, that was the problem. Marcie felt displaced. She had a nagging feeling that she was doing all the right things, but maybe she was just in the wrong place. Follow Marcie on a cuisine-fueled journey from the English countryside to the wilds of rural Lazio as she and her husband Peter try to reinvent themselves, finding out along the way what is truly important to them, no matter where they are. A sense of family. A sense of home.