'I would go for a long walk every day, usually by myself, because Caspar would be working, and I made an amazing local friend, who I would bake cakes with, which she'd then deliver to the older people in the village. 'I got to prioritise myself in a way that I've never been able to before,' she says of life in the Cotswolds countryside, where she and Caspar moved from London just before the pandemic hit. But not touring, being at home, being still… well, it's changed her. Stronger, extolling the virtues of a healthy approach to life, which will be out next month. It's not like she hasn't worked as such – she released an album, Brightest Blue, in July last year, and wrote a book, Fitter. It's only the second time since her music career took off in 2010 that she can remember actually stopping, reflecting and recalibrating. The past 18 months, Covid fears and frustrations aside, have given 34-year-old Ellie a rare moment to breathe. Her Balearic wi-fi is so pitiful that sadly it won't allow for a good enough connection for me to see any of this, but, from the sound of things, I can only assume she is beaming.

The sun is shining, her four-month-old baby, Arthur, is asleep in the room next door, and her husband, art dealer Caspar Jopling, has just accidentally strolled into our interview naked. She tells Francesca Babb how she took control of her career – and saved herself from burnoutĮllie Goulding is in Ibiza. Marriage, baby, house in the country… ELLIE GOULDING's life has changed dramatically over the past year.

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