via Zoom, from her home close to Lake Windermere in Cumbria, which she shares with her husband Roger and their daughters, Emilia, eight, and Bethany, 15.
She shows me glimpses of outside: the green fenland vegetation reflected in the lake water like a 19th-century watercolour. Inside, big, squishy sofas are strewn with woven cushions, pale linen curtains flutter at windows, and cedar surfaces glow in the winter sunshine.
It’s the quintessential, inside-outside lakeside idyll.Being here during lockdowns has been no great hardship either. ‘I feel guilty saying this, but it’s been wonderful to have the lake to ourselves,’ says Nielsen.
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