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Alice to Prague : the charming true story of an outback girl who finds adventure - and love - on the other side of the world / Tanya Heaslip.

By: Publisher: Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2019Description: xvi, 342 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781760529765
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 914.3712 23
Contents:
Prologue: The muster -- The Belin Wall -- Adventures, ahoy -- Maruska and Zdenek -- First night at boarding school -- Gymnazium Sedlcany -- Stake in the leg -- Lessons in life -- Foreign correspondent -- You will not die on my watch! -- Sex and free will! -- Words and music -- Benesov -- Fairytale Prague -- Do I stay or do I go? -- Sumava weekend -- Last days -- Hello Prague! -- Velmi stary pes - Grumpy old dog -- Looking for work -- English house -- Finding the Ministry of Justice -- Love is for nothing -- Bowing before the High Court -- Finding language and music -- A-networking we go! -- Love is for nothing (part 2) -- A toilet in the kitchen -- Carp and Christmas -- Snow, glorious snow! -- Maturantsky ples -- Petrin Hill -- Zofin -- Alice Springs -- Return to Prague -- Loss -- Late autumn -- Tears -- 2002 -- Epilogue: Czech friendship -- Acknowledgments.
Summary: 'I loved it! I laughed and cried and it was very hard to put down.' Fleur McDonald, bestselling author of Where the River Runs 'Vivid and detailed...captures the pain and freedom of dislocation and questions what it is to belong.' Kathryn Heyman, author of Storm and Grace In 1994, with a battered copy of Let's Go Europe stuffed in her backpack, Tanya Heaslip left her safe life as a lawyer in outback Australia and travelled to the post-communist Czech Republic. Dismissing concerns from family and friends that her safety and career were at risk, she arrived with no teaching experience whatsoever, to work at a high school in a town she'd never heard of, where the winters are frigid and plunge to sub-zero temperatures. During her childhood on an isolated cattle station in Central Australia, Tanya had always dreamt of adventure and romance in Europe but the Czech Republic was not the stuff of her dreams. On arrival, however, she falls headlong into misadventures that change her life forever. This land of castles, history and culture opened up to her and she to it. In love with Prague and her people, particularly with the charismatic Karel, who takes her into his home, his family and as far as he can into his heart, Tanya learns about lives very different to hers. Alice to Prague is bittersweet story of a search for identity, belonging and love, set in a time, a place and with a man that fill Tanya's life with contradictions.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Jessie Street National Women's Library General Stacks 914.3712 HEA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available for reference in the library and ILL 90766

Paperback / softback.

Prologue: The muster -- The Belin Wall -- Adventures, ahoy -- Maruska and Zdenek -- First night at boarding school -- Gymnazium Sedlcany -- Stake in the leg -- Lessons in life -- Foreign correspondent -- You will not die on my watch! -- Sex and free will! -- Words and music -- Benesov -- Fairytale Prague -- Do I stay or do I go? -- Sumava weekend -- Last days -- Hello Prague! -- Velmi stary pes - Grumpy old dog -- Looking for work -- English house -- Finding the Ministry of Justice -- Love is for nothing -- Bowing before the High Court -- Finding language and music -- A-networking we go! -- Love is for nothing (part 2) -- A toilet in the kitchen -- Carp and Christmas -- Snow, glorious snow! -- Maturantsky ples -- Petrin Hill -- Zofin -- Alice Springs -- Return to Prague -- Loss -- Late autumn -- Tears -- 2002 -- Epilogue: Czech friendship -- Acknowledgments.

'I loved it! I laughed and cried and it was very hard to put down.' Fleur McDonald, bestselling author of Where the River Runs 'Vivid and detailed...captures the pain and freedom of dislocation and questions what it is to belong.' Kathryn Heyman, author of Storm and Grace In 1994, with a battered copy of Let's Go Europe stuffed in her backpack, Tanya Heaslip left her safe life as a lawyer in outback Australia and travelled to the post-communist Czech Republic. Dismissing concerns from family and friends that her safety and career were at risk, she arrived with no teaching experience whatsoever, to work at a high school in a town she'd never heard of, where the winters are frigid and plunge to sub-zero temperatures. During her childhood on an isolated cattle station in Central Australia, Tanya had always dreamt of adventure and romance in Europe but the Czech Republic was not the stuff of her dreams. On arrival, however, she falls headlong into misadventures that change her life forever. This land of castles, history and culture opened up to her and she to it. In love with Prague and her people, particularly with the charismatic Karel, who takes her into his home, his family and as far as he can into his heart, Tanya learns about lives very different to hers. Alice to Prague is bittersweet story of a search for identity, belonging and love, set in a time, a place and with a man that fill Tanya's life with contradictions.

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