Tracey Essery, a 63-year-old sustainability consultant, pays between £500 and £600 a month in bills, and spent over £100,000 on her barge. “Living on a boat takes a lot more planning than ...

At the age of 48, with a publishing deal for my debut novel Larchfield in my pocket, a water-dwelling writer whispered that living on a boat was London’s best-kept secret — a more affordable ...