I sold my poky three-bed semi in Manchester and bought an entire French village – now I’m doing up 17th century houses

COLLAPSING on the sofa after putting her two kids to bed, Liz Murphy felt like she was on a never-ending treadmill.

She and husband David would drop children Tom and Charlotte, then nine and five, at the school breakfast club at 7.30am before heading to work.

SWNSLiz Murphy and husband David bought historic rural hamlet of Lac De Maison, in Poitou-Charentes in the south west of France, for £400,000[/caption] SWNSThe Manchester home the family left to fund their move to France[/caption]...