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Falling in Honey

How a Tiny Greek Island Stole My Heart

9781402285103

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Available: 03/04/14
5.48 x 8.25 · 352 pages
9781402285103
CDN $28.99 · pb
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Jennifer Barclay

A bittersweet yet heartwarming travel memoir about a woman who heals her broken heart and rediscovers herself while living on a tiny island in Greece.
Eat Pray Love meets My Big Fat Greek Wedding with a sprinkling of Mamma Mia in this unforgettable journey from heartbreak to happiness. One winter, when her love life falls apart, Jennifer Barclay decides on Three Gifts to Self. One and Two are reducing her workload and staying away from relationships. The Third is to travel to a wild Greek island - alone - for one month. It's a chance to find another kind of contentment, one that comes from holding an octopus in your hands. She decides to stay longer, but just when everything is falling into place again, the strangest thing happens. . .
Praise for Falling in Honey :
This book will make you laugh and cry and laugh again. I didn't want it to end." - Emma Woolf, author of An Apple a Day
"A lovely read, made me want to run away to a Greek island." - Helena Frith Powell, author of All You Need to Be Impossibly French
"Five honey dipped stars. . . prepare to get hungry with a need to travel. This is a perfect book for lounging on the beach, or for helping you pretend that you are during the winter." - Bitchesn Prose
"Barclay's beautiful memoir recalls both Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love and the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding, providing glimpses into the lives of people in a small Greek village and the process of healing from a broken heart." - Booklist
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Jennifer Barclay grew up in a village in the north of England. After studying English at Oxford, she worked as an English teacher in Greece, a literary agent in Canada, a freelance editor in France and editorial director of a publishing company on her return to England. Her travels in many countries inspired her to write a first book, Meeting Mr Kim, as well as stories in newspapers, magazines and websites. In 2011, she moved to the tiny Greek island of Tilos, where she now worksfrom home surrounded by mountains and sea, and wrote the book Falling in Honey.