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A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST SUMMER TRAVEL BOOK OF 2024
**Good Housekeeping recommended ''20 uplifting memoirs by remarkable women'', June 2024**

**Wanderlust magazine best travel books of 2024**
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Discover the incredible story of one woman''s solo journey, from Land''s End to the shores of Greece, exploring the unexpected joy of solitude, self-discovery and resilience

''It's hard to read The Half Bird without wondering whether you could do it too. It may be better to start by pondering Smillie's wider message that to work out what will truly make you happy, you first need to stop and smell the air around you'' Guardian
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''We have no idea how much resilience there is inside us until we have to draw on it. We learn that we grow through adversity only as we go through it. That we crave happiness like plants leaning toward the light''

When Susan qu

The Half Bird

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    A Hardback by Susan Smillie

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
      Published 3/21/2024
      ISBN-13 9780241553169
      978-0241553169
      ISBN-10 0241553164
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      Biography Memoirs

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST SUMMER TRAVEL BOOK OF 2024
      **Good Housekeeping recommended ''20 uplifting memoirs by remarkable women'', June 2024**

      **Wanderlust magazine best travel books of 2024**
      ______

      Discover the incredible story of one woman''s solo journey, from Land''s End to the shores of Greece, exploring the unexpected joy of solitude, self-discovery and resilience

      ''It's hard to read The Half Bird without wondering whether you could do it too. It may be better to start by pondering Smillie's wider message that to work out what will truly make you happy, you first need to stop and smell the air around you'' Guardian
      __________

      ''We have no idea how much resilience there is inside us until we have to draw on it. We learn that we grow through adversity only as we go through it. That we crave happiness like plants leaning toward the light''

      When Susan qu

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