title: Seagulls in the Attic: Making a New Life in Cornwall
author:  Tessa Hainsworth 
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. In the first book "Up With the Larks Tessa" charted her first turbulent year with the "Royal Mail", and her transformation from outsider to 'Posh Postie', adopted Cornishwoman and much-loved member of her new community. In "Seagulls in the Attic" Tessa is now a pillar of the community, or so she thinks. Life is becoming hard for her and her family as they realise that being part of a small community is not quite the idyll she had been lead to believe, as lack of money and the demands of family life take their toll. But, as with the first book, Tessa finds the fun and resilience to turn all the hardships to her advantage - eventually. It is rapidly becoming a must-read book for all those who hanker for an escape to the country.
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  CHAPTER ONE
  
  
  
  
  
  _December
  
  
  4th 1814_
  
  
  
  
  
  The inhabitants of Winterbourne St Swithin
  
  
  prided themselves upon their village. It was no mere rural backwater, no
  sleepy
  
  
  hamlet full of rustics and yeomen whose social hierarchy was topped off by a
  
  
  red-faced squire and whose amenities consisted of the church and a tavern or
  
  
  two.
  
  
  
  
  
  Theirs, they boasted, was a bustling
  
  
  community straddling the post road to Aylesbury with a glimpse over the
  meadows
  
  
  to the waters of the new canal ordered by the crazy old Duke of Bridgewater,
  up
  
  
  in his mansion on the Chiltern crest. There was the Bird in Hand, a large
  
  
  coaching inn, to serve the stage and the mail and the carriages of the gentry
  
  
  going to and from London and Oxford. There was the fine Winterbourne Hall
  
  
  with the Nugents to preside over local society and half a dozen gentry houses
  
  
  in the vicinity to fil