Christine Davies Curtis: 5 books

In ‘To Sark and Beyond’ Chris Davies Curtis has combined her three previous books, ‘So You Want to Live on Sark,’ ‘From a Feudal Isle to Aotearoa,’ and ‘From Queen’s Nurse to Godzone.’ Starting dramatically with her experiences as a district nurse in London in the early 1960s, where...

After seven years of running their guest house and smallholding on the tiny feudal Island of Sark in the British Channel Islands, Chris and Ken Davies decided to have a two-year break. In 1972 they packed their suitcases and booked passage, with young son Roy,to New Zealand, calling at many...

In 1965,Londoners Chris and Ken Davies went looking for fresh air and a different lifestyle. They bought two windswept acres on the tiny Feudal Island of Sark in the British Channel Islands, just off the French coast. Chris and Ken quickly mastered new rules of survival; they learned to milk goats,...

In her previous books Chris tells of her move to the tiny Feudal Island of Sark, in the British Channel Isles with her husband Ken, to run their guest house and smallholding. They then journey out to New Zealand to explore and finally settle there. Over the years the marriage starts to falter and...

Chris tells of her years as a district nurse, first in London in the early sixties and then New Zealand in the late seventies. She tells of the rough living conditions in London, where we meet people like the solo mother dying of cancer and longing to give her children a good Christmas and the 90...