A refreshingly honest account of one couple’s remarkable project: to open their family home to some of society’s most vulnerable people
Imagine living in a few acres of Somerset woodland. Just outside your front door, wild flowers carpet the forest floor, birds sing in the trees, dappled sunlight shines through the leaves. There are raised beds where you grow your own food, keep pigs and chickens, do simple woodwork …
Sounds like the good life, right? But now add this to the picture: you share your beautiful home with an endless stream of guests including Hayley, a recovering addict whose feet smell so putrid it’s impossible to eat in the same room as her; Ben, a chap with learning difficulties who spends his spare time enjoying sadistic porn magazines; Chloe, a teenager with anorexia who self-harms and has such severe OCD that she has memorised every stock number in the Ikea catalogue; and Darren, a former soldier who is so traumatised that he has a panic attack when somebody pops a balloon.
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