For Lucy Lucraft the decision to get out of London was a visceral, emotional reaction to having her first child. And on a practical level swapping Shepherd’s Bush for Hove, in East Sussex, has been transformational too.
Pre-children Lucy worked as a travel journalist and lived in the one-bedroom flat she had bought with an inheritance received after the death of her father. Then, in quick succession, she got married, had a baby — Anais, now six — and went freelance.
