Briton Will Dean, 40, and his wife Emilia, 42, bought the 3.5-acre clearing in the middle of a Swedish forest 11 years ago and moved there full time in 2012.
It had no access road and their selfbuilt home, located 90 minutes north of Gothenburg, can only be reached along a winding tree-lined dirt road, weather – and moose – permitting.
A twice-monthly trip to the one shop in their nearest town – which is 30 minutes drive away – sees them have to take a chainsaw in case they come across a fallen tree.
So for Mr Dean it’s much easier to be as self sufficient as he can be – with water from his self-dug, 110-metre well, potatoes from the vegetable patch and wood from trees around his home.
The successful crime writer – the author of a series of books featuring deaf reporter Tuva Moodyson – and his lawyer wife work from home in separate wooden huts.
They meet in the middle for lunch when work permits. Along with his six-year-old son, Alfred, he has a massive Norwegian forest cat called Monty and Bernie the Saint Bernard for company.
Apart from bears and wolves, their nearest neighbour is two miles away, and before they had a child, he would frequently go for a month without seeing anyone apart from his wife.
But he admits remote living and working is not always easy.