What do you do when your car breaks down during a pandemic, nobody will fix it, and you end up buying a carpenter's van with no windows, no experience, and absolutely no idea what you're doing?
If you're Andy, you convert it into a campervan. You install a diesel heater, carpet the walls, put a coffee machine on the worktop, and drive to Lake Como.
If you are Claire, you make a lot of tea.
It Started with a Van is the true story of how a faulty Mercedes, a bolt that took two weeks and angle grinder to remove, and a YouTube channel that started with five views led two people from Barnsley on the adventure they never planned and couldn't stop having. It is a book about a van, a marriage, a dog called Pablo, and the difference between vision and reality.
Told in two voices, with no agreement on the timeline and considerable disagreement about most of the details.
5 STAR READER REVIEWSBelly achingly funnyPerhaps Claire and Andy should be asking B and Q plus Yorkshire Tea to sponsor it!!As a man who doesn't read books at all. This is the first book in 35 years I have read. Just finished in one sitting. It will make you laugh and cry. Also thoroughly absorbs you into the journey
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