About the Author

Fiona J Houston is a journalist, museum researcher, grandmother and campaigner for a greener world. A former schoolteacher, avid historian,and an experienced gardener and cook, her year in the past brought together these skills and passions in a remarkable living-history project.

Reviews

Done with great wit and intelligent determination... Questioning the nature of progress is a sane response in a relentlessly consuming and resource-depleted world.'
*The Guardian*

'It's a riveting tale of a rather extraordinary journey' -
*Family History Monthly.*

'If ever there was an argument for the survival of the printed book, this is it.'