Review: Essential reading for fiction-loving travelers!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 10, 2013
A masterful collection of short stories bound together by the theme of travel, but actually embracing just about every important theme in literature - love, death, motherhood, marriage, etc etc - in deftly woven, well-timed tales that had me gripped. Very well written, with a nice blend of humour, and poignant situations, never predictable and always pleasing. I quite liked the device of prefacing every story with a quote from a great writer, too, and went back at the end of every story to remind me what its quote had been, to understand its deeper meaning. Although part of the fun was to enjoy the settings and more or less a round the world trip, there is also a sub-theme of "not travelling". A reminder also that wherever you travel, you always take yourself and your problems along.A rewarding by-product of the author's career as a travel writer, it indicates to me that she spends a great deal of her travelling time people-watching - and the good news is that she will never run short of material. More, please!