The art of unpacking your life
By: Shireen Jilla
Publisher: Bloomsbury Reader
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781448215201; 9781448215195
Subjects: Female friendships; Fiction; Safaris; Self-realization in women
Description: Twenty years ago, they were the best of friends. When Connie invites her university gang on the holiday of a lifetime, a safari in the Kalahari, they have little in common anymore. Is getting them back together a terrible mistake? Connie is lonely. With her children at secondary school and an ambitious MP husband, who is regularly adulterous, she is searching for her own purpose in life. She feels insecure next to Sara, a driven, defiantly single barrister, and has conflicted feelings towards her old flame, the freshly-divorced Luke, whose own secrets threaten to overwhelm him. Despite the undercurrent of tension, they are drawn into the adventure and begin to enjoy each other once more, a million miles away from their daily concerns. They finally have space to explore what really matters to them. But a series of events and revelations bring new challenges to the group.
Notes: Also issued online.