{"product_id":"free-to-go-across-the-world-on-a-motorbike-9781529389685","title":"Free to Go: Across the World on a Motorbike","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'An exhilarating story of freedom and constraint, told with a confident and unwavering verve. This is a journey driven by boundless curiosity, and by the desire for connection - across borders, across languages, across time'\u003c\/b\u003e MALACHY TALLACK\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Esa Aldegheri and her husband left their home in Orkney, Esa didn't know that their eighteen-month motorbike adventure would take them through twenty international frontiers - between Europe and the Middle East, through Pakistan, China and India - many of which are now impassable. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCharting a story of shrinking and expanding liberties and horizons, of motherhood, womanhood, xenophobia and changing geopolitical situations, \u003ci\u003eFree to Go\u003c\/i\u003e examines the challenges of navigating a world where many assume that women ride pillion, both on a motorbike and within relationships. Part around-the-world adventure, part-literary exploration of womanhood, \u003ci\u003eFree to Go \u003c\/i\u003eis about the journeys that shape and transform us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA very readable tale of adventure, motherhood and the ties that bind. Honest and perceptive, \u003ci\u003eFree to Go\u003c\/i\u003e perfectly captures the whole tricky business of being a free-spirited woman at large in the world\u003c\/b\u003e -- LOIS PRYCE, author of Revolutionary Ride\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn her account of an epic trip by motorcycle, and a similarly scaled expedition into the trauma that was the recent pandemic, Esa Aldegheri opens the book on the most elemental aspects of being alive: tested by trials, gripped by the varieties of love, and crossing borders both internal and drawn on the map. \u003ci\u003eFree to Go\u003c\/i\u003e is an act of literary generosity, and an expression of clear-eyed beauty\u003c\/b\u003e -- MELISSA HOLBROOK PIERSON, author of The Perfect Vehicle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA thought-provoking and elegiac journey through a lost world on a second-hand motorbike, the past, present and life itself\u003c\/b\u003e -- CHITRA RAMASWAMY, author of Expecting","brand":"John Murray Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48740257825111,"sku":"9781529389685","price":13.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781529389685.jpg?v=1720054239","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/free-to-go-across-the-world-on-a-motorbike-9781529389685","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}