After separating from her partner during the uncertain times of lockdown, Nancy Campbell buys a caravan, gets her wonderful friend Sven to drive it to a glade next to a canal in Oxfordshire and lives there, building new friendships and allowing herself to come to terms with the loss of her relationship. 

Thunderstone is an extremely real & raw account of her experience living alone in her first home, tucked away by the canal, learning a new way of living.

This is the first book I’ve read from Campbell and now I see why she is an auto-buy author for so many people. Her writing is incredibly unique and special - there’s something cosy and charming about her words whilst also being laced with emotion. 

I savoured this one over a few months, slowly picking it up when I needed a cosy book to read in the evening. It is a lovely little book.

I really loved getting to know everyone in her new little community on the canal & surrounding areas. The cosiness in this book was immense, it felt like I was tagging along with Nancy visiting Sven & the assassin, planting new seeds next to the caravan and trying to solve the mysteries of the water heater. 

I now want to read all of Campbell’s other books - and plonk a caravan in the middle of the woods somewhere.