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Backpack

Backpack

Author(s): Emily Barr

Location(s): China, South East Asia, Tibet

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): Modern

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It’s New Year’s Day and the year isn’t kicking off well for Tansy: her mother’s dead, she’s a cocaine addict and her boyfriend has just left her. A trip around the world seems like the only option except that she’s not interested in seeing the world, just escaping from it, and the last people she wants to hang out with are backpackers.
Like a lot of travellers on the Lonely-Planet-led Asian Grand Tour, Tansy is intensely irritating at first. Always on the look out for the “real” Vietnam–the one in which she can walk around “like a model, fanning myself gently, strolling into ancient temples and learning about inner peace”–she is opinionated, narrow-minded and remarkably naive (for a supposed media luvvy). Once she has shrugged off her addiction to lines of coke, skinny lattes and Nicole Fahri jumpers, she becomes more appealing. So by the time she’s fallen for Max, a fellow traveller, she’ll have won you over and you’ll be just as worried as she is about the serial killer who appears to be on her trail.

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An intelligent and entertaining read, with the amazing backdrop of Asia and India. I really enjoyed this read and felt it captured some of the trials and tribulations of life on the road. –...

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