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Wayward Women
Sex, Friendship and the Midlife Reset. A Memoir of Reinvention, Female Friendship, and Wild Travels Around the World
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An insightful, honest and funny journey around the globe and into the heart. Eat Pray Love meets Want. Wayward Women is a unique, searingly honest, devastatingly raw two-person memoir about the friendship, travels and sex lives of two fiftysomething women finding their way again after divorce....
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Wayward Women is a raw, witty and fearless two-voice memoir of friendship, freedom and desire, as two fiftysomething travel writers rediscover themselves after divorce. From Florida to India, Lapland to Hong Kong, they chart love, loss, parenthood and menopause, alongside the remarkable women who shape their journey and the deep bond that sustains them.
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An insightful, honest and funny journey around the globe and into the heart.
Eat Pray Love meets Want.
Wayward Women is a unique, searingly honest, devastatingly raw two-person memoir about the friendship, travels and sex lives of two fiftysomething women finding their way again after divorce.
It's an entertaining, emotional and geographical journey that bounces around the world from Florida to India, Lapland to Hong Kong. The authors—both leading travel writers—relay their experiences as midlife women: love, loss, parenthood, divorce, menopause. Along the way, they share tales of the inspirational women they meet, and the growth of their friendship.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781835013595
Publisher: Bedford Square Publishers
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 29 January 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bedford Square Publishers
DIMENSIONS
Width: 156.0mm
Height: 254.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 272
About the Author
?Emma Becker gained recognition with her debut novel Monsieur (2011), followed by Alice (2015). In 2013, she moved to Berlin, where she worked in a brothel for two years to research her semi-autobiographical novel La Maison (2019), which won the Prix France Culture-Télérama. After several years in Berlin, she relocated to the south of France in 2021, where she continues to write. Rhonda has written for The Guardian, The Telegraph, Metro, iPaper, Red magazine, Condé Nast Traveller, National Geographic Traveller, The South China Morning Post, and many others. She's appeared on radio shows and travel panels and as a speaker at travel events, and she writes and translates award-winning fiction. She has also written and edited a handful of major travel books. Tracey is a veteran travel writer whose byline regularly appears in Metro, The Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Times/Sunday Times, The Guardian, iPaper, Country Life, Red Online, Good Housekeeping, Platinum, Breathe, Teen Breathe, and Travel Weekly. She was co-host of the Carry On travel podcast and is a regular panellist on radio and travel shows. She is also a stand-up comedian.
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