The Move

The Move

Author: JP Delaney Listening Length: 7h 54m

New beginnings can be deadly . . . Kate and Matt Crowther are finally moving out of London, in search of a better life for their young family. Trade Cottage seems to be the house of their dreams – and they immediately hit it off with the sellers, Rosemary and Paul Finch, who brought up their own family there. When Kat...

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The next few days were agony. There was a particular cruelty about sealed bids, she thought to herself more than once, in that you were really bidding against yourself – one minute telling yourself an extra ten thousand would surely do it, the next that it would be crazy to let it get away for less than twenty.

In any case, the fact there were two buyers after it proved Trade Cottage had been undervalued, so it was worth offering even more – say, thirty, or even forty .

. . All the arguments and counterarguments were in your own head, as were the fantasies of actually living there.