This book details the amazing true adventure of a single girl leaving her mother and setting up home on her own in the middle of nowhere in rural Dorset, when girls left home to go to a job or get married. Monica was the original single girl but her love of nature and what surrounded her little rented cottage is bourne out in her words and her own photographs in this book. If you love history or nature, this charming story will have you captavated. The cottage remains still as it did in Monica's day.