By the time Luli Harvey reached her 70s, her entire adult life had been spent in London. It was where she'd worked hard, married – and divorced – twice, and raised her three children, happily forging a rich, busy existence. Even so, the countryside called to her.
It's a fantasy familiar to many of course, nourished by Escape to the Country and an endless list of books stretching back to H E Bates's 50s fiction The Darling Buds of May and beyond. The difference was that Harvey made the dream a reality – and not just as a septuagenarian, but single-handedly and during Covid lockdowns.
Its pursuit forced her to focus on a question that too many of her peers ignore until it's too late, she says: how to facilitate convivial, dignified living in older age.
The solution she hit upon
