The Long Way Home
by Lydia Laube
2020-04-17 16:14:33
I sat in the windowless and windscreenless front seat of the truck receiving proposals of marriage: only three, I must admit, but then I was only there three quarters of an hour and wasn't looking my best.'Lydia Laube worked as a nurse in Saudi Arabi...
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I sat in the windowless and windscreenless front seat of the truck receiving proposals of marriage: only three, I must admit, but then I was only there three quarters of an hour and wasn't looking my best.'Lydia Laube worked as a nurse in Saudi Arabia and described her tribulations and triumphs in the best-selling traveller's yard Behind the Veil. Lydia Laube returned to Saudi Arabia, collected her pay, then decided to take The Long Way Home via Egypt, Sudan, Kenya and India. Our Good Little Woman is as eccentric and entertaining as ever ... blithely she trots along, sunshade held aloft, while behind her ships sink, hotels explode, and wars erupt.
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