The Goldilocks HOUSE
Falling in love – that had been the easy bit, now Tess looked back.
She and Gus were a whirlwind romance, if you had to pick a category (and it seemed that both their families were keen to assign a label).
They had married in the register office – just a quiet do because they wanted it that way – then set about the practical stuff of uniting their lives.
In essence, this meant deciding where they’d live together. Tess had thought it’d be a cinch. They each had a small flat on opposite sides of town, so agreed they’d sell up, combine their finances and find a ‘forever house’.
The subsequent house search reminded Tess, a shade too late, of how stressful it was buying a property. Before meeting Gus, she’d been in her little flat eight comfortable and uneventful years, all of it upended as she and Gus set out on their quest.
‘Same for him, I suppose,’ said her friend
