Just Me

Product Description

' Well now prove it Sheila. As John would say Put your money where your mouth is." Be a depressed widow boring the arse off everyone or get on with life. Your choice.' In The Two of Us Sheila relived her life with John Thaw
- years packed with love & family delight & despair. & then she looked ahead. What next? Gardening grannying & grumbling while they all had their pleasures weren't going to fill the aching void that John had left. ' Live adventurously' a Quaker advice was hovering around her brain. Putting her & John's much loved house in France on the market she embarked on a series of journeys. She tried holidaying alone contending with invisibility & budget flights. She tried travelling in a group but the questions she wanted to ask were never the ones the guide wanted to answer. She tried relaxing
- harder than you might think. Finally heading out of her comfort zone she found her travels & the things she discovered led her back to her past; to consider her generation
- the last to experience the Second World War
- & the kind of person it made her. Just Me is a book about moving on but it is also about looking back & looking anew. Sheila whether facing down burglars & Easyjet staff or making friends with waiters & taxi drivers whether unearthing secrets in Budapest getting arrested in Thailand exulting in the art of Venice or searching for a decent cup of coffee in Dorset is never less than stimulating company. Honest
- because if you can't say what you think at seventy-three when can you?
- insightful & wonderfully down to earth she is a woman seizing the future with wit gusto & curiosity on her own."