The Carry-On Imperative

<p>At the age of twelve Robin Pascoe lost her mother suddenly to a brain aneurysm. At sixteen when her father remarried she saw everything familiar-her home her school and friends-vanish overnight. It was a rocky start in life but luckily Pascoe was blessed with optimism an irrepressible spirit and the driving power of her own resilience.</p><p>The stories in <em>The Carry-On Imperative</em> recount Pascoe's ambitious beginnings as a journalist and broadcaster through her years as a not-so-diplomatic foreign service spouse. Her trail-blazing books about globally mobile families made her an in-demand speaker worldwide and led to the creation of The Expat Expert one of the first websites for expats.</p><p>Fans of <em>The Diplomat</em> will relish this rollicking memoir from the wife who trails her husband to far-flung locales but works hard to establish her own identity and career. Wise touching and laugh-out-loud funny <em>The Carry-On Imperative </em>is a delightful inspirational chronicle of one woman's travels travails and lifelong quest to transmute the pain of her early losses into understanding and assistance of others.</p>