'A cross between H is for Hawk and Wild' (STYLIST), TRAVELING WITH GHOSTS is a beautiful memorial to a great love and a brave survival guide to coming to terms with loss.
After her fiance's death following an encounter with a box jellyfish, Shannon Leone Fowler embarked on a journey around settings associated with loss and grief to come to a better understanding of these aspects of life, travelling to Auschwitz, Sarajevo and the most poverty-stricken areas of Bulgaria and Romania. Her developing understanding of the worst of the human experience is documented powerfully here.
Billed as a cross between Cheryl Strayed's WILD and Helen Macdonald's H IS FOR HAWK, this is a moving account of grief