"When Scottish actor John Cairney decided to emigrate from Glasgow to Oxford, a country town in North Canterbury, New Zealand, he kept a daily diary in which he recorded his experiences ... Hiis move to New Zealand was prompted by his actress wife, Alannah O'Sullivan's wish to return home to her family, and it is this family and their surroundings that form the basis if Cairney's highly entertaining account of his first year in a strange land"--Cover.