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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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914.3712/HEA
Biography   Queanbeyan . . On Loan . 22 Mar 2024
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ISBN 9781760529765
1760529761
Author Heaslip, Tanya author.
Title Alice to Prague : the charming true story of an outback girl who finds adventure - and love - on the other side of the world /
Publication Crows Nest, NSW ::
Allen & Unwin,
2019.
Physical description xvi, 342 pages ; 24 cm.
Notes Paperback / softback.
Summary 'I loved it! I laughed and cried and it was very hard to put down.' Fleur McDonald, bestselling author of Where the River Runs 'Vivid and detailed...captures the pain and freedom of dislocation and questions what it is to belong.' Kathryn Heyman, author of Storm and Grace 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 dreamt 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 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.
Subject Heaslip, Tanya
Young women--Czech Republic --Prague
Women travelers--Anecdotes
Young women--Australia --Travel --Biography
English teachers--Czech Republic --Prague
Travelers' writings, Australian
Australians--Czech Republic --Prague
Australian travel writing
Travel writing
Prague (Czech Republic)
English teachers
Czechoslovakia--Prague
Genre Travel writing
Shelf Location 914.3712/HEA
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