A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar (Audiobook)

from BeyondEdenRock

The title caught me first. Then the cover. And oh, the endpapers, they were quite wonderful ... My imagination had been captured, and I was quite ready for the story to take hold of me. It did. I found myself in Kashgar, in East Turkestan, in 1923. I was in the company of three lady. Christian mi...

from gypsysmom

I can't imagine going to Kashgar even now (it is very remote) but to go as part of a team of three women missionaries from England in 1923 seems very brave. Of course, this is a novel; although there were European missionaries who went to Kashgar in the early 1900s none of them appear to have bee...

from kaitanya64

I feel like a need to make a shelf for "historical novels about women travelling" as it is a sort of favorite of mine. This was an intriguing read. The novel has two parallel threads, one set in 1923 in Asia and the other in contemporary London. The first plot is implied by the title. Evangeline ...

from JenGennari

Great interweaving of a present day woman and a woman in the 1920s who goes on an ill-fated missionary trip to china. Another excellent use of anticipation--wanting to know what comes next. Note to self: interesting reference to the freedom biking brings to Eva. When she flees the country she doe...

from bookwoman247

This is the dual story of two missionaries in 1920's China and of a friendship that develops between woman in current-day London and an illegal immigrant from Yemen whom she finds sleeping near her doorstep. The writing was elegant, and this kind of story is my cup of tea, so I loved it!