HOME is where the heart is
Sitting on the terrace of her beautiful Dorset home, Polly Fry admits that she has never been one to go about things in the conventional way, and finding a smaller home for herself and her five daughters following her divorce was no exception.
She couldn’t bear to stray far from the area in which she’d put down roots 30 years earlier, she explains. ‘All the friends I’d made and whose children’s lives have continued to be entwined with those of my children are far too important for me to have upped sticks and moved away.’ But rather than enlisting the help of local estate agents, Polly started scouring the local lanes for her future home, which needed to be large enough for each of her children to have a room of their own. ‘I
