THE past few years have seen a spate of authors attempting to spend a year living by biblical law, forgoing sex, spending only £50 a day and so on. This is another such book. Susan Maushart’s shtick is to wean herself and her three teenage children off the internet, mobile phones, television and the like for six months.
Predictably, the road to Walden Pond is rocky. Maushart’s children rebel, but eventually meals are eaten together, board games are played and her son revives his interest in playing the saxophone. It’s a classic rebirth plot, the one these stunt-stories usually follow.…
