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  • Packing Up

  • Further Adventures of a Trailing Spouse
  • By: Brigid Keenan
  • Narrated by: Jane Copland
  • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (8 ratings)

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Packing Up

By: Brigid Keenan
Narrated by: Jane Copland
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Summary

Brigid Keenan was a successful young London fashion journalist when she fell in love with a diplomat and left behind the gilt chairs of the Paris salons for a large chicken shed in Nepal. 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 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 organize 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.
©2014 Brigid Keenan (P)2014 Audible Inc.
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I would recommend this to anyone around the 60’s who would know of Brigid and to all those who love the idea of travel but can’t do it themselves. A funny, entertaining story. . Have already recommended it to like- minded people.

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