I can't remember the exact blurb on the back of All Over The Place but the gist of it was 'author gets laid off from work and goes traveling'. Knowing that Geraldine Deruiter has a popular travel blog I was expecting a book about travel and tales of adventures in foreign lands - probably on a tight budget. Instead the author travels with her husband in a somewhat luxurious style, blogs and writes this book which is not about destination type journeys but about Geraldine's personal journeys: her health scares, her anxieties, her relationship with her family and the great love she has for her husband Rand.
The book jumps around (all over the place perhaps?) and although stories are set in different locations, there is very little written about these places making it less a travel book than a book that is written by someone who travels.
Geraldine is an engaging writer and storyteller who writes admirably with honesty and self depreciating humour about her own quirks and fears. She is a very funny author, hilarious even and there were plenty of passages that made me laugh out loud.
I enjoyed All Over The Place a lot but did feel a little duped as I was expecting a travel book rather than a personal memoir. If it had included more about the places she visited it would have made me an even happier reader but even without the travel element it's still a very good light hearted read touched with emotional moments.
Recommended.
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