Packing Up Further Adventures of a Trailing Spouse Synopsis
Her bestselling account of life as a 'trailing spouse', Diplomatic Baggage, won the hearts of thousands in countries all over the world. Now, in her further adventures, we find Brigid in Kazakhstan, where AW, her husband, contracts Lyme disease from a tick, the local delicacy is horse meat sausage and Brigid's visit to a market leads to a full-scale riot from which she requires a police escort. Then, as the prospect of retirement looms, Brigid finds herself on the cusp of a whole new world: shuttling between London, Brussels and their last posting in Azerbaijan, navigating her daughters' weddings while coping with a cancer diagnosis, and getting a crash course in grand-motherhood as she helps organise a literature festival in Palestine. Along the way, dauntless and wildly funny as ever, Brigid learns that packing up doesn't mean packing in as she discovers that retiring and moving back home could just be her biggest challenge yet.
'Keenan, I suspect, was quite possibly put on this planet with the express purpose of writing ... There are not many books that have made me cry from laughing, but this is one of them' - Katie Hickman, Sunday Times
Fabulous ... writes like a dream Joanna Lumley I found myself laughing out loud three or four times a page. Quite unlike anything else I have ever read: sad, touching, honest and observant ... Brigid Keenan is a new comic genius - William Dalrymple
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About Brigid Keenan
Brigid Keenan is an author and journalist. She has worked as an editor on Nova magazine, the Observer and the Sunday Times. She has published two fashion histories as well as Travels in Kashmir, Damascus and the best selling Diplomatic Baggage and is a founding board member of the Palestine Festival of Literature. She lives in Pimlico and Somerset.
