- Paperback: 140 pages
- Publisher: Summertime Publishing; first edition (20 Feb 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1904881173
- ISBN-13: 978-1904881179
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14 x 0.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,692,831 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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After living abroad in France, Dubai, Oman, Norway and the Netherlands, author and journalist, Jo Parfitt, has compiled here, an anthology of the poetry that has 'saved her life' during the 20 years she has been on the road. This is a memoir in poetry of a life overseas. Join the author on her journey through culture shock, repatriation, motherhood, the world of work and self-discovery as she shares the moments when she was on top of the world, in the valley of shadows, and many places in between. This is a book in which expatriates everywhere can find themselves.
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This unique memoir in verse offers an insight into the life of an expat wife and will resonate with anyone who has ever lived abroad.
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I usually prefer prose to poetry but the title of this book appealed to me and I was not disappointed. Jo Parfitt tells the story of her life which has certainly known a lot of moving to different places. Each location has a specific flavour but, above all, I loved the quirky personal nature of each poem. 'Granny gets into the Swing' is a loving portrait that made me laugh, and 'Ten Years' a tale of ten years of a happy marriage that made me cry. Altogether a most enjoyable experience that kept me reading into the night.
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This book inspired me and filled my senses with emotions I felt had been buried for a long time. Jo uses words to paint beautiful pictures and one cannot help but be moved by her obvious love for her family and for her home, wherever that may be. I have lived in the Middle East and so could almost smell the balmy air. This book was a joy to read and I loved it.
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Poignant, sometimes wistful, passionate, a posy of elegantly written poetry, where her life abroad has been entwined with different cultures, but still remaining at one with nature. Jo willingly follows her soul mate wherever Ian's career has posted him and embraced in her grasp each new challenge as they were flung at her, invited or otherwise. She dances with the music. Breathtakingly bearing her heart and soul to the mirage of ever changing discoveries, like a young flower in the desert dawn, she yawned and stretched and grew with the new experiences.
For any Expat, anyone thinking of relocation for a career or retirement this is a revealing read. But for someone who gazes out daily of the window, up at bleak, British grey skies and puddle strewn pavements from continuous rainfall, you will feel your heart, mind and soul uplifted and carried on a journey through the turning pages of Jo's 20 something years living as an Expat. Not in one country, but Dubai, Oman, Norway, England and then back to the continent, to nestle in amongst the daffodils of the Netherlands, where her roots are for now.
Jo Parfitt, an author of 26 non - fiction published books, is an inspiration to us all. A devoted wife, a loving mother and daughter who has treasured the values her parents installed in her and is eternally grateful to them, but has never stopped working!
This collection of emotions, experiences and exploration of life abroad, living, working, surviving the distance from all things British, saw me read this book not once, but twice, all the way through before I wrote my review. I just had to read it again. Ever since then this memoir of "A Moving Landscape" has pride of place on my coffee table where I can browse, digest and dream amongst this Expat collage of her life - where I can muse over and relate to her feelings, her dreams and her sometimes nostalgic longings of her homeland.
I wished in goneby schooldays, I had been given the opportunity to study such well-written poetry like this, instead of some boring old Bard in old Saxon dialect.
A jolly good read - and not just for the ladies!
Who says careers aren't portable?
Aside: You may too enjoy her other books; "Career in Your Suitcase" or "Expat Entrepeneur".
For any Expat, anyone thinking of relocation for a career or retirement this is a revealing read. But for someone who gazes out daily of the window, up at bleak, British grey skies and puddle strewn pavements from continuous rainfall, you will feel your heart, mind and soul uplifted and carried on a journey through the turning pages of Jo's 20 something years living as an Expat. Not in one country, but Dubai, Oman, Norway, England and then back to the continent, to nestle in amongst the daffodils of the Netherlands, where her roots are for now.
Jo Parfitt, an author of 26 non - fiction published books, is an inspiration to us all. A devoted wife, a loving mother and daughter who has treasured the values her parents installed in her and is eternally grateful to them, but has never stopped working!
This collection of emotions, experiences and exploration of life abroad, living, working, surviving the distance from all things British, saw me read this book not once, but twice, all the way through before I wrote my review. I just had to read it again. Ever since then this memoir of "A Moving Landscape" has pride of place on my coffee table where I can browse, digest and dream amongst this Expat collage of her life - where I can muse over and relate to her feelings, her dreams and her sometimes nostalgic longings of her homeland.
I wished in goneby schooldays, I had been given the opportunity to study such well-written poetry like this, instead of some boring old Bard in old Saxon dialect.
A jolly good read - and not just for the ladies!
Who says careers aren't portable?
Aside: You may too enjoy her other books; "Career in Your Suitcase" or "Expat Entrepeneur".
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I felt the tears come as I read, "The Day I Left," (one of the many great poems in A Moving Landscape by Jo Parfitt) and thought "don't care what the luggage allowance is, this... Read more
Published on 21 Jan 2010 by Faithwriter
Utterly Inspiring
A Moving Landscape by Jo Parfitt
Deliciously deep
Simply strong
Vulnerably honest
Utterly inspiring!
Deliciously deep
Simply strong
Vulnerably honest
Utterly inspiring!
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