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Alice to Prague
The charming true story of an outback girl who finds adventure - and love - on the other side of the world
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What happens when a young independent Northern Territory country girl decides to follow her dreams and go off in search of adventures abroad? An honest, often funny, bittersweet memoir of love, loss and belonging; of the hard-won understanding around where home lies.
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'I loved it! I laughed and cried and it was very hard to put down.' — Fleur McDonald, bestselling author of Where the River Runs
'A story of love for country, for home.' — Toni Tapp Coutts, author of A Sunburnt Childhood
In 1994, with a battered copy of Let's Go Europe stuffed in her backpack, Tanya Heaslip left her safe life as a lawyer in outback Australia and travelled to the post-communist Czech Republic. Dismissing concerns from family and friends that her safety and career were at risk, she arrived with no teaching experience whatsoever, to work at a high school in a town she'd never heard of, where the winters are frigid and plunge to sub-zero temperatures.
During her childhood on an isolated cattle station in Central Australia, Tanya had always dreamed of adventure and romance in Europe, but the Czech Republic was not the stuff of her dreams. On arrival, however, she falls headlong into misadventures that change her life forever.
This land of castles, history, and culture opened up to her and she to it. In love with Prague and her people, particularly with the charismatic Karel, who takes her into his home, his family, and as far as he can into his heart, Tanya learns about lives very different to hers.
Alice to Prague is a bittersweet story of a search for identity, belonging, and love, set in a time, a place, and with a man that fill Tanya's life with contradictions.
'Vivid and detailed . . . questions what it is to belong.' — Kathryn Heyman, author of Storm and Grace
'A brave, open-hearted and emotionally intense journey.' — Liz Harfull, author of Women of the Land
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Alice to Prague by Tanya Heaslip is praised for its emotional depth and vivid storytelling. Reviewers appreciate its exploration of home, belonging, and dislocation, with some finding it hard to put down due to its emotional intensity. The narrative is characterised by a heartfelt and adventurous tone that captures a love for both homeland and new experiences.
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ISBN: 9781760529765
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 06 May 2019
Country: Australia
Imprint: Allen & Unwin
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 28.0mm
Width: 154.0mm
Height: 235.0mm
Weight: 475g
Pages: 360
About the Author
Tanya Heaslip was born on a cattle station in outback Australia at the height of the Cold War. She grew up to study and then practice Law. In 1989 she travelled to Europe for the first time and in 1994 she moved to the Czech Republic where she taught English for two and a half years. Since then Tanya has returned to the Czech Republic many times.
Tanya now lives in the Northern Territory with her husband.
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