In her new book Living Together, Mim Skinner sets out to explore communities that have rejected individualism and nuclear family life in order to embrace a more collective way of living. In this interview, Mim shares her writing process and how she knitted together her own personal journey together with the stories of others around the UK’s communes, eco-villages and co-living spaces to explore about a more compassionate, connected and sustainable ways to live. Mim Skinner is a writer and social entrepreneur living in County Durham. She is the co-founder of REfUSE, an organisation which intercepts and redistributes food that would go to landfill. Her debut non-fiction book Jailbirds won her a place on The Elle List’s 2019’s ‘game changers of now’ and the paperback edition was listed by Stylist as one of their most anticipated backs of 2020.

She and her husband recently bought two retired train carriages which they hope to convert into a tiny home on a community farm.