No going back: journey to Mother's Garden

"There's a sign hanging just inside the broad and battered front door of our ramshackle farmhouse that reads "Deu Vos Guard." On the day we bought our tiny patch of Catalonia, a new friend who lives across the valley laughingly translated it as God Help You." So begins Martin Kirby's candid and often comic account of how he and his wife, a typical British couple with two young children, give up their careers, home, and stable life in England to move to a small rundown mountain farm in Catalonia and turn it into a viable small-holding business.