Murphy Williams

Murphy will be on hand to make sure all your needs are taken care of.She will prepare fresh, healthy meals, make sure the bread bag is put out for Lydie the boulangerie in the mornings, show you the way to the farm shop and swimming lake, teach you how to play French billiards and maybe tell tales of the ancestors whose portraits hang about.Her parents were married in the adjacent church, both her children christened there, and she has celebrated a few birthdays at the château in Grand Meaulnes style, so knows how joyous a place it is.Murphy started out in London as an arts editor and staff journalist at Vogue, Esquire, GQ, and the Telegraph, and still writes the occasional feature for its Saturday magazine.In 2004, she moved to Cornwall to raise her family, where she booked performers for the Port Eliot Festival over its 15 years and launched Cloud Nine Marshmallows, a brand of natural, handmade pillows of luxury that have earned eight Good Taste stars from the Guild of Fine Food. She is still getting her head around French bakeries' wildly varying opening hours.