Archive for: moving abroad

Expat Bookshop reviews “Spinach Soup for the Walls”, a memoir set in Gabon

Expat Bookshop reviews “Spinach Soup for the Walls: Finding my spirit in Africa” (Local Legend, 2012), a memoir by Lynne Harkes.

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Lynne Harkes on losing £20 and the mysterious way in which it was returned to her

Lynne Harkes, author of “Spinach Soup for the Walls: Finding my spirit in Africa” (Local Legend, 2012), reflects on the importance of learning how to receive.

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Authors of “Expat Teens Talk” featured in new global e-zine

An article by Diana Smit and Dr Lisa Pittman has been published in Young & Global Magazine. Smit and Pittman are the authors of “Expat Teens Talk: Peers, Parents and Professionals offer support, advice and solutions in response to Expat Life Challenges as shared by Expat Teens” (Summertime 2012).

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Lynne Harkes on “viewing reviewing”

Lynne Harkes, author of “Spinach Soup for the Walls: Finding my spirit in Africa” (Local Legend, 2012), reflects on the relationship between the book and reader’s (or reviewer’s) psyche.

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Jo Parfitt’s Sunshine Soup is “a hugely enjoyable story of loss, intrigue and redemption”

A new review of Jo Parfitt’s expat novel “Sunshine Soup” (Summertime 2011)

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Laura J Stephens memoir “touches on the taboo… of depression”

Fellow author Lynne Harkes reviews Laura J Stephens’ “An Inconvenient Posting: An Expat Wife’s Memoir of Lost Identity” (Summertime Publishing 2012).

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Feedback on TCK workshop hosted by Summertime authors

Diana Smit and Dr Lisa Pittman hosted a weekend workshop with UWCSEA’s Centre for International Education in Singapore. Smit and Pittman are the authors of “Expat Teens Talk: Peers, Parents and Professionals offer support, advice and solutions in response to Expat Life Challenges as shared by Expat Teens” (Summertime 2012).

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Win a copy of Lynne Harkes’ memoir “Spinach Soup for the Walls”!

Win a copy of Lynne Harkes’ memoir “Spinach Soup for the Walls” (Local Legend, 2012)

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Expat Teens Talk recommended for parents and teens who are “in need of inspiration or some practical ideas” on relocation

Online parenting community, Moms in Vaud, reviews “Expat Teens Talk: Peers, Parents and Professionals offer support, advice and solutions in response to Expat Life Challenges as shared by Expat Teens” (Summertime 2012), by Dr Lisa Pitman and Diana Smit.

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Artist and author Lynne Harkes: “I think the ‘right’ reader will connect with the ‘right’ book”

Expat Bookshop interviews Lynne Harkes about the writing, publishing and marketing of her memoir “Spinach Soup for the Walls: Finding my spirit in Africa” (Local Legend, 2012).

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