Chucking It All: How Downshifting to a Windswept Scottish Island Did Absolutely Nothing to Improve My Quality of Life (Maverick Lifestyles)

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 dont 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 urbanites 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. Sarcastic cheeky and bitingly blunt... this comes highly recommended - The Scottish Field