“Losing one’s professional identity is possibly the most difficult aspect for many women to come to terms with when they move overseas for a partner’s career,” writes Shelley Antscherl in her review of Laura J Stephens’ An Inconvenient Posting for DutchNews.nl. The book, which explores the author’s unexpected depression after a relocation to Houston, “is not a whining tale about how hard life is as an expat spouse; it’s an uplifting account of the author’s personal struggle to stop herself from sliding into depression brought on by so many huge life changes going on at the same time”.

Read the full review here.Read more about An Inconvenient Posting: An Expat Wife’s Memoir of Lost Identity (Summertime Publishing 2012) here.

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