Description
On this beautifully written and searingly honest autobiography, the intrepid cyclist and traveler Dervla Murphy remembers her richly unconventional first thirty years. She describes her decided childhood self – strong-willed and beguiled by books from the primary – her intermittent formal education and the serious relationship of an only child along with her parents, particularly her invalid mother, whom she nursed until her death. Bicycling fifty miles in a day on the age of 11, by myself, it kind of feels only natural that her first major journey will have to have been to cycle to India.