Donaldson explores the conflicts between marsh-dwellers and corporate Britain, between private ownership and conservation. What begins as a walk away from her troubled past becomes a journey of self-discovery, a pilgrimage in search of people who have chosen to live on the edge of England in this lonely, beautiful waterland. She meets plotholders, houseboat owners and cabin dwellers who are all drawn to the watery margins by an urge to escape the expectations, comforts and costs of twenty-first century life. | On The Marshes by Carol Donaldson, Paperback | Indigo Chapters