“Emma Carmichael’s utterly delightful book chronicles a journey through the Balkans in all its unexpected delight and well described tension.

 

It is a journey through countries I thought I knew quite well until I read this book. Emma’s heart-warming and often heart-stopping account of one woman’s drive through a relatively unexplored and uncelebrated part of Europe puts us alongside her in her tiny car on her perilous and often hilarious journey.

 

Hats off – Edith Durham and Rebecca West would both have recognised Emma as a fellow traveller in (more humorously) unpicking the reality within the enigma that is the Balkans.”