Knight's Move

Columnist India Knight swapped city life for a rural idyll near Framlingham and found peace on earth . . . especially with a dog or two in residence. Catherine Larner caught up with her

- Catherine Larner

ANYONE who reads the novels, reviews, tweets or newspaper columns of journalist India Knight will feel they know her very well. Her confessional, conversational style has detailed hilarious and poignant family exploits, philosophised on shopping, diet and dogs, and mused and advised on the past week’s events and product releases. Life provides material for her incisive, vibrant and playful comment.

Now that she is fairly recently settled in a village in north Suffolk, we might soon be seeing more of our homes and habits featuring in her books and articles as she delights in rural life and has become evangelistic about her move from the city.

“It’s been a complete U-turn for me,” she says, of selling up to buy a farmhouse near Framlingham. “Lots of my friends thought I’d gone mad, but I am very certain about what I like and I knew it wasn’t a mistake.” Settled with her partner of six years, the former MP for Falkirk, Eric Joyce, India says that the couple had found it more and more of a wrench to leave their regular weekend breaks in the countryside to return to London.