Book description
Having given up a high-powered job and the lifestyle to match, Tessa
Hainsworth had no idea how hard she would struggle when, full of
optimism, she fulfilled her dream of moving to rural Cornwall with her
young family one September. Within months, she is almost ready to
return to London, tail between her legs: her husband is still out of
work, her children are struggling in a cold, damp, tumbledown house
and the family is running out of money - fast. But a chance encounter
in the local post office leads her to accept the unlikeliest of job offers.
Up with the Larks charts Tessa's turbulent first year with
the Royal Mail, and her transformation from outsider to 'Posh Postie',
adopted Cornishwoman and much-loved member of her new community.
She starts in the bitter darkness of midwinter, faced with the
perils of the Christmas rush, a van with a mind of its own and a host
of unfamiliar routes, local characters - and their animals, large and
small. But, day by day and month by month, she meets and learns to
love a wonderfully colourful cast of characters until her second
Christmas in Cornwall is entirely different from the first, as the
community goes out of its way to thank her with small gifts and other
tokens of their affection.
At last she feels Cornwall is home.
Tessa Hainsworth worked for years as a marketing manager at The Body
Shop. She now lives in Cornwall with her husband and two children.
