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The Bredins can't afford to divorce. The house in London ''would'' sell, but not for a priced that would allow Quentin and Lottie ( she with her son and their two girls) to each get somewhere to live. Unemployment has barrelled into the equation too: Lottie's lost her job as an architect and Quentin's prowess as a journalist is in reducing demand. There's not much in the way of family help available: Lottie's mother's house might be worth six million, but she barely scrapes by on her income. There's one solution that just might work: the house in London can be let and they'll move to somewhere cheap in the country and live as best they can on the rent they receive.
Home Farm in Devon ''sounds'' good, but the reality is different. So far as the big picture's concerned it's... well, it's... Devon. Cultural and ethnic diversity is all but unknown and in winter the weather's cruel. The people are good, kind for the most part, but their concerns are not the ones which politicians worry about. Politically, they're largely forgotten. Home Farm's not exactly cosy either. It's damp, it's cold and the sinister atmosphere is only explained when they discover that the last tenant was murdered. His headless body was found by the postman. Lottie and Quentin each find out about this, but neither feels able to tell the other and they're certainly not going to tell the kids. It's bad enough that the girls have had to leave their private school and go to the local primary.
