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Writing on the Road: Campervan Love and the Joy of Solitude (Paperback)
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Writing on the Road: Campervan Love and the Joy of Solitude (Paperback)
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List price R286
Loot Price R245
Discovery Miles 2 450
You Save R41 (14%)
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This book is not just funny (or sad) stories of campervan trips in
Scotland; it is not just 'Zen and the art of campervan maintenance'
(with stories of sweetness and light that will entertain or make
you cry); and it is not just nature writing (with observations of
wildlife in the western Scottish Highlands). But if you enjoy
reading about how books are written and about recovery stories from
relationship breakdowns, and if you like reading about women
travelling alone and all the things that can go wrong (and right),
about strategies for facing fear, dealing with creepy crawlies and
noises in the night, and about surviving all that life throws at
you (especially when you are over a certain age), then you will
probably enjoy this book. Writing on the Road is by Sue Reid
Sexton, who, while writing two novels (Mavis's Shoe and Rue End
Street) over the past six years, needed to escape from her hectic
household to create some space to write them. As the mother of two
and a step-mum of four, Sue realised her only real option was to
get into her campervan and have it function as a mobile office.
Whether she camped by a beach overlooking the Atlantic in the
Kintyre peninsula with buzzards, golden eagles, deer, seals,
surfers, other campervanners and dead fish for company, or in the
hills around Glasgow, or on Skye, Morvern, the Cowal peninsula or
even in southern France, her main aim was to switch off her phone,
get out her laptop and write. Sue has made countless journeys in
campervans in the last few years and thanks to her practice of
taking notes as she travels, we, too, can enjoy her campervan
experiences. In Writing on the Road Sue also writes about the many
and varied practical difficulties of campervan life that she has
had to overcome. They include locking herself out of the campervan
at night miles from home; coping with local byelaws and negative
attitudes to campervans and to women travelling solo; driving a
hundred miles with a window open before she could empty a cracked
toilet; and finding out the wrong (and the right) way to buy a
campervan. We hope this book will inspire anyone looking for
encouragement in the expressive arts to get creative and persuade
any would-be campervanners to get out there and enjoy the campervan
life.
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