Award-winning author of travel and nurse memoirs
Glass Half Full: Our Australian Adventure
New edition available now containing photographs of our journey around Australia.
Is the glass half empty or half full? Ironically, sometimes life influences our view and alters our perception.
When a UK step-family makes the tough decision to seek a new life in Australia it appears all their troubles are over as their new life begins. Life in Australia exceeds their expectations until challenging life events including grief, loss and relationship issues test their powers of positivity, persistence and determination. However, a bigger test was coming. When they lose their home, assets and belongings to the Brisbane floods in January 2011 they have to decide when enough is enough! A touching true story that many readers will relate to.
Two dogs and a suitcase: Clueless in Charente
The title says it all: what we have and where we are. This book, the sequel to Glass Half Full: Our Australian Adventure, follows our French exploits as we endeavour to rebuild our lives in another new country, after spending four and half years in Australia. Our goal, or hope for the immediate future, is to focus positively on the present, so that we can start a new, optimistic future back in Europe. Our main aim is to be nearer to the children, leaving the dark clouds of the challenges we faced in Australia as a distant memory. Journey with us as we arrive in rural South West France; enjoy my reflections, thoughts, and observations about my family, our new surroundings, and our lifestyle. Follow the journey of my writing career and how we start our renovation project while managing our convoluted family life. Once again, we will laugh, cry, and enjoy life to the fullest with a generous helping of positive spin thrown in for good measure.
Here's what readers have to say:
"I have to say that I simply loved this book. Being a fan of programs like Grand Designs, I have always wondered what it would be like to renovate and live in a house in the countryside somewhere. It is a nice thought, but I don't know whether I would have the courage to actually do it." Ethan Sandlow
"I enjoyed the honesty and integrity of the writing especially the complexity of Sarah's relationship with some of her children. It also highlights the difficulties of surviving on limited resources in rural France." Hellbell on Amazon
Our Frugal Summer in Charente: An Expat's Kitchen Garden Journal
Find out how a woman with a reputation for culinary catastrophe keeps her family fed in rural France, with no money, 2 Australian Cattle dogs, 5 chickens, 4 ducks and a vegetable garden, with some hilarious consequences!
If you have read Two Dogs and a Suitcase: Clueless in Charente or you just enjoy cooking, gardening and expat stories then this book ticks all the boxes for a great read.
There are 31 recipes for both food and wine, included in a month by month account, with photographs, of how we transformed a neglected garden into a valuable vegetable garden.
5***** Top notch
By swnseajac on 17 Nov. 2014
Format: Kindle Edition Verified Purchase
Top notch yet again ! Having read and thoroughly enjoyed Sarah's first two books I was delighted to welcome a third ! I certainly wasn't disappointed Sarah has a wonderful writing style and a lively sense of humour and the subject matter of this book was an entertaining and interesting change . This author has taken me out of my comfort zone nationwide and I'm so glad she did. Try it you will love it.
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