Forced to move out of her home in West Sussex and into her in-laws’ house in an isolated village in Berkshire to save money during the pandemic, George could suddenly only see brick walls ahead of her.
“I want to work and be a good example to my daughter,” she says. “But because of the pandemic it seemed impossible. I sent out hundreds of CVs and spent days trawling the internet for jobs but I just couldn’t find anything in this part of the world. Within a few months of moving here, I’d sunk. I lost all my confidence, began suffering from anxiety, put on weight and stopped going out. It felt like it was all over.”