POV: Olivia

The estate sits on the kind of land that makes you forget, temporarily and completely, that the world contains anything difficult. James Dominic’s cousin, had built it the way people build things when they have both the resources and the genuine intention to create something lasting. Not a showpiece, not a monument to wealth, but a home in the truest sense of the word. Wide and low and warm-coloured, surrounded by grounds that roll outward in every direction with the unhurried generosity of land that has never been crowded.

There are horses in the far paddock that my daughter discovered on the first morning and has been devoted...