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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Emma Magnus

'I fell in love with living half outside': Cornwall shed owned by author Catrina Davies for auction for £100k

Author Catrina Davies lived in her shed, near Land's End, for more than 10 years - (Auction House South West)

“I felt so homesick when I lived in a house, and yet, now that I live in a shed, I don’t feel homesick at all,” writes Catrina Davies in her book, Homesick: Why I Live in a Shed.

“Living in a shed isn’t a cop-out, or a bum’s choice, or a romantic hippy dream, but my answer to an impossible question: how to balance on an economic system that is fundamentally unsound.”

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