Salford to Shanghai: An Extraordinary Ordinary Story

An involving, pacy, moving and humorous memoir of an ordinary girl who goes from roots in a northern English city to work in the City of London, study martial arts in China and visit tea growers in Kenya before going on to start up her own business. Her descriptions of the people and places she encounters are full of background information, atmosphere and humanity. The accounts of her adventures in China and Kenya are particularly immersive and entertaining. One minute moving, the next funny and always informative, it also describes how a love of reading helped her to cope with teenage illness, overcome shyness and make some of her dreams come true.