Express.co.uk that he and his wife Sarah Don, became “lambs to the slaughter” after their jewellery company went bankrupt in 1987.The gardening expert ended up surviving on dole money throughout the early 1990s after the stock market crash took all of their life’s savings.Monty recalled: “We were lambs to the slaughter and we lost everything, we lost our house, our business.
We sold every stick of furniture we had.”Following the closure of the business, Monty published his first book The Jewel Garden in 2004.The premise for the novel stemmed from the couple's commercial failure and told the story of their early days living at Longmeadow.In Jewel Garden, Monty relived how he and Sarah had transformed the muddy fields around the Tudor.
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