Alice to Prague
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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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Alice to Prague

The Charming True Story of an Outback Girl Who Finds Adventure - and Love - on the Other Side of the World

About this book

'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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Information

Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Year
2019
eBook ISBN
9781760871185
Edition
0
Topic
Personal Development
Subtopic
Travel

Table of contents

  1. COVER PAGE
  2. PART TITLE
  3. TITLE PAGE
  4. COPYRIGHT PAGE
  5. CONTENTS
  6. DEDICATION
  7. PROLOGUE: THE MUSTER
  8. 1 THE BERLIN WALL
  9. 2 ADVENTURES, AHOY!
  10. 3 MARUŠKA AND ZDENĚK
  11. 4 FIRST NIGHT AT BOARDING SCHOOL
  12. 5 GYMNÁZIUM SEDLČANY
  13. 6 STAKE IN THE LEG
  14. 7 LESSONS IN LIFE
  15. 8 FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT
  16. 9 YOU WILL NOT DIE ON MY WATCH!
  17. 10 SEX AND FREE WILL!
  18. 11 WORDS AND MUSIC
  19. 12 BENEĹ OV
  20. 13 FAIRYTALE PRAGUE
  21. 14 DO I STAY OR DO I GO?
  22. 15 Ĺ UMAVA WEEKEND
  23. 16 LAST DAYS
  24. 17 HELLO PRAGUE!
  25. 18 VELMI STARÝ PES—GRUMPY OLD DOG!
  26. 19 LOOKING FOR WORK
  27. 20 ENGLISH HOUSE
  28. 21 FINDING THE MINISTRY OF JUSTICE
  29. 22 LOVE IS FOR NOTHING
  30. 23 BOWING BEFORE THE HIGH COURT
  31. 24 FINDING LANGUAGE AND MUSIC
  32. 25 A-NETWORKING WE GO!
  33. 26 LOVE IS FOR NOTHING (PART 2)
  34. 27 A TOILET IN THE KITCHEN
  35. 28 CARP AND CHRISTMAS
  36. 29 SNOW, GLORIOUS SNOW!
  37. 30 MATURANTSKÝ PLES
  38. 31 PETŘÍN HILL
  39. 32 ŽOFÍN
  40. 33 ALICE SPRINGS
  41. 34 RETURN TO PRAGUE
  42. 35 LOSS
  43. 36 LATE AUTUMN
  44. 37 TEARS
  45. 38 2002
  46. EPILOGUE: CZECH FRIENDSHIP
  47. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS