The Waverley Gazette

Writing on the Road by Sue Reid Sexton - featured in The Sunday Post

The Sunday Post: 1/5/16

‘Writing on the Road’ is a book with a difference. It’s a charming blend of travel journal, a guide to enjoying the moment, learning how to survive as a woman on your own and how to carve out the space and time to write. Sue’s book is a very honest and moving story… Her innate courage and humour shine through. ‘

Sue will appear at Waterstone's Oban on Saturday 7th May at 2pm to sign copies of her book.

The images below are 1) Sue Reid Sexton with Moira McPartlin (campervanner and author of novel Ways of the Doomed) at Waterstone's Argyle Street, Glasgow for 'Writing on the Road' event 2) Aye Write! event 2016 Sue Reid Sexton with author Lorraine Wilson 3) Lorraine Wilson and the bag that travelled with all she needed around Europe for many weeks

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Islington Next Week! Get Your Hands on that! The London Stationery Show 26/27 April stand number G117

Campervans, Tartan Notebooks, Paris Heaven, Islington darling...

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Review by 'Book Addict' on Amazon - thank you Book Addict

This review has appeared today of Sue Reid Sexton's 'Writing on the Road'. A lovely review, carefully written. Reproduced from Amazon.co.uk

"This unusual, beautifully written book is many things. It is the story of a love affair with the West Coast of Scotland – the oceans, the beaches, the birds, the seals, the skies. It's a book about accessing your creativity as a writer, motivating yourself, getting the words down on the page and evaluating what you've written. It's a book about solitude and courage, and a basic introduction to Buddhism and meditation. And it's also a book about campervans: the joys and technical challenges of their ownership.

The author bought a series of second-hand campervans, each with its own eccentricities and each with its own name: among them teeny Vera, Vanessa Hotplate and Fugue Ducato. Over a prolonged period, while her second marriage was slowly unravelling, she headed out into the wilds of Scotland to search for her sanity, and to write: long days working on a laptop in the van, with magnificent vistas out the window, sustained by oatcakes, cheese and cups of tea. As she adapted to solitude, her confidence grew, and in this sense the book can be compared to Eat, Pray, Love, except that it is much better written. There's an elegiac quality as the author mourns the loss of her marriage and contemplates single life again, but you sense she has such inner strength she will manage just fine.

It didn't make me want to buy a campervan – I need my home comforts more than that – but it did make me want to visit many of the places mentioned. The gorgeous descriptions make you feel as though you are actually there on the edge of wild grey ocean with a seal watching you from a few yards out, or in complete, disorienting darkness without any background city glow. The book is invaluable as a guide to enjoying your own company, something all of us need to learn no matter what our circumstances. Like all the best travel writing, it shows that the most compelling journey is the one that leads inside to illuminate the soul."