Product Description

Chloe's beloved godmother dies, leaving her a letter and a map of Britain together with the suggestion that she leaves her job and her boyfriend to embark upon an adventure - a year spent travelling around the four countries of the United Kingdom.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #217398 in Books
• Published on: 1998-05-21
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 416 pages

Express
‘A breath of fresh air’

Independent on Sunday
‘An original, direct, funny new voice’

About the Author
Freya North holds a Masters Degree in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute. She has worked for the National Art Collections Fund as well as for a commercial sculpture garden and freelanced as a picture researcher before starting to write full-time. She lives in London.

Customer Reviews

An inspiring journey
An amusing and touching tale of self discovery that stayed with me long after I reached the end. This is the first of Freya North's novels that I've read, and though not usually a chick lit fan, I will definitely be reading more from her.

Yuk
Does anyone in the world speak with a voice like Chloe's? I hope I never meet them. Her mix of wide-eyed ingenue and sex goddess of North London didn't wash with me I'm afraid. She comes across as a real simpleton in the way that she speaks and the way she acts, oozing naive charm left, right and centre. It made me want to beat her with a frying pan. I hated this book. I read it because I wanted some well written escapism and ended up with irritating rubbish.

There's nobody quite like Freya!
I've read every one of Freya North's books and must say that nobody can relax and excite the mind quite like her. She is the first author I've read who actually talks to her characters directly and encourages them to divulge their inner most feelings to us. And it's great fun to read.

Chloe has to be my number one book. What a wonderful idea to have a heroine give up her dreadful job and appalling boyfriend and discover both herself and the four countries of the UK during the four seasons. Haven't we all wanted to do that at one time or other?

Freya North has a great eye for detail, whether describing a kiss, the ocean or pieces of polythene snagged in a tree - the world is a wondrous place, and when you finish one of her books it really is like losing a friend.