Travels with Lottie

About the Book

Getting married – for the first time – at 20 meant that this single mother never got the teenage backpacking bug out of her system. A mixture of circumstance and natural wanderlust sets her and her eight year old daughter, Lottie, on the road for four years in succession. Poverty makes an interesting bedfellow as we are swept along in their exciting wake. They are burnt by volcanoes travelling by train through Italy, learn the art of bullfighting and tomato fighting as they drive from one sun-hot village to another around southern Spain, follow the path of Odysseus in Ithaca on the way to the throne of Zeus on Mount Olympus in Greece, avoid gunshots and arrest in Jerusalem, and learn deep sea diving as they island hop around the Croatian coast. An enchanting story about the relationship between a child and her mother, and a fascinating exploration of surprising places. A ‘must read’ for anyone who thinks they might like to adventure cheaply with their children, or who just wants to travel a joyful road.

About the Author

Descended from an itinerant Irish family but brought up as a child in Kenya, Juliet was educated at Kitebrook House prep school, where she later became Deputy Head, and then at Millfield and Oxford University where she got a First in English Literature. She had four daughters between two husbands and worked for her doctorate in Children’s Literature amid sundry children’s traumas. Later she had more holidays than most single mothers, and in time left over she was an enthusiastic and inspirational teacher. She lives in the Cotswolds and looks after two dogs, two cats, two horses and a man.