Traveling the world in comfort
- Attfield Dutt
- 4 hours ago
- 2 min read
Are you booking your summer holiday just now, and worrying about air fares going up or flights being cancelled because of the war? Or do you prefer not to fly at all because of the effect all this air travel has on the climate crisis?
If you decide to stay at home this year, here’s a way of still traveling the world in the comfort of your own living room – get a copy of A DISTANT VOICE IN THE DARKNESS which is now available as a paperback for £9.99 or an ebook for £3.50.
Billed as a long-distance love story, this novel soon immerses you in a Nigerian university campus of the 1970s. Do join Eleanor as she relaxes with Alec by the kidney-shaped staff swimming pool, where the frogs croak all day under the rim and waiters bring you drinks. She sets off north to explore the country up to Jos and the age-old city of Kano, with its clay houses. She’s fascinated by etiquette on the roads – pull over if you see a government cavalcade behind you, warn oncoming drivers about a pothole you’ve just passed, avoid people walking along with baskets on their heads with produce to sell, watch out for the two lads on mopeds balancing an eight-foot pane of glass between them. Alec is keen to study the ancient civilisations here, with their bronzes and masks.
Much later in the story, there’s a crucial row between two brothers halfway down the Grand Canyon, while Eleanor sketches peacefully higher up on the path. She visits Iceland and watches an enormous geyser coming to the boil. She spends some time in Copenhagen with her father’s family, and eats a lot of smorrebrod at her book launch in London, with disastrous results...
By chance Eleanor and Alec independently find themselves in Kolkata, where they are entertained in the cool of the evening at the home of a large family which has been there for three hundred years. They take a train up to Darjeeling and see the Himalayas spread out in the mist at dawn.
Finally Eleanor gets shot at a roadblock in Lesotho when trying to escape an armed coup… To find out how that works out, see leeladutt.ampbk.com or get in touch at info@attfieldduttbooks.com
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