Harriet Vance
relocation consultant
Organised; visit at rush hour
Moving Day
New jobs, new schools and the real cost of a city. Kwame learns how to choose a neighbourhood, secure school places and settle children who did not want to move.
Planned · not started yet
Home & housing Family duty Living with uncertainty Belonging City life Family home Hopeful Tense
The premise
New jobs, new schools and the real cost of a city. Kwame learns how to choose a neighbourhood, secure school places and settle children who did not want to move.
The protagonist
Kwame Hollander-Gallagher — Father relocating his family from a village to London
The council
Every council member is an original fictional character. None represents, quotes or is endorsed by a real person.
Leon Petrakis
estate agent
Salesy but knowledgeable
Delia Bright
school-admissions officer
Exact; rules are rules
How the story moves
Three months of moving; the youngest child’s unhappiness is the emotional thread, and the family’s first neighbourhood choice turns out to be wrong.
What readers take away
- Choosing a neighbourhood
- Hidden costs of moving
- School admissions and in-year applications
- Commuting trade-offs
- Renting before buying in a new city
- Removals, contracts and moving day
- Settling children
- Finding community
- Compare council tax and running costs
- Use commute-time mapping
- Help children make friends
- Register with GP and dentist
The books
- 1The offer Planned
- 2The search Planned
- 3The move Planned
Book titles are working titles and may change before publication. No book is on sale until the complete series is finished, checked and released.