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Written By: Fiona Valpy.
Published By: Lake Union Publishing.
Thanks to the publisher for sending me a physical copy of the book for the purpose of this review, also thanks to Random Things Blog Tour for adding me to the tour.
Overview
1927. Violet Mackenzie-Grant is embarking on her dream of studying at the Edinburgh School of Gardening for Women. She doesn't yet know that it's a journey that will take her to Kathmandu and beyond, deep into captivating landscapes and cultures that are worlds away from everything and everyone she's left behind in Scotland.
2020. Daisy Laverock has dreamed of retracing the footsteps of her great-great-aunt Violet ever since discovering her long-lost journals, whose accounts of plant hunting in the 1930s inspired Daisy's own career. Divorced, and facing an empty nest, Daisy decides to embark on the trip of a lifetime. She arrives in Nepal, ready to start trekking in the shadow of Everest. But fate, and the pandemic, have other plans.
Stranded and alone, Daisy must fall back on the kindness of strangers, taking inspiration from Violet's determination and resilience to keep going in the darkest of times. As she gradually pieces together the fragments of Violet's story and uncovers long-held secrets, can Daisy finally reveal a path forward to her own future?
Overview taken from the official book press release
Review
Sometimes when it comes to reading I like to do a bit of a gear change and go for something that I maybe haven't before but as you read further into the book you soon see that this is an awe inspiring journey not to be missed
The book follows two story veins as we retrace the steps of Violet Mackenzie-Grant as she encounters a grueling but inspirational journey following her dream of attending the Edinburgh School of Gardening for Women taking her on a physical and mental journey across the world. The other vein of story is following Daisy Laverock as she endeavours to follow her great-great Aunt Violet's footsteps across the globe. The inspiration for this journey came as Daisy came across the lost journals of her great-great Aunt Violet.
The original plan was for Daisy and her mother to retrace the steps from the journal but this came the time of the pandemic when a raise in temperature meant no travel which left Daisy as a solo traveller but with fierce determination Daisy gets her head down and continues the journey to finish what her great-great Aunt Violet started all those years ago.
This story is nothing short of inspirational as the two journeys are detailed in the book. A story of passion and fierce determination and details of a breathtaking journey that you can't help but get on board with. The detailed history of the Sherpa people I found enchanting as this opens the mind to the legendary natives and how they lived, one thing for certain is that Nepal sounds a stunning place that I would definitely love to visit one day
I loved the way this book was written, Fiona Valpy has a unique style that brought the characters to life as they told their stories in a biography style that made you feel as though you went on the journey with them. If you are interested in travel or even the world as a whole then I'd definitely recommend picking this up.
Summary
Time now then to put my thoughts into a summary, overall I enjoyed the experience of reading this book it felt like a conversation and the book flowed in a natural way. The unique way that the two separate storylines ran through the book although two different stories they still felt connected. You can't help but feel inspired by this book as you read through the pages the fierce determination just flows through each page.
Verdict-Out of 5 ⭐
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I give The Sky Beneath Us a good score of 4 ⭐, an enlightening and inspiring story that is full of emotion and determination the stories of two strong women really inspire you as you read the book. Definitely pick this book up if you want to open your eyes to a new part of the world we live in.
Note on The Author
Fiona Valpy is an acclaimed bestselling author, with three million readers world-wide. Her novels have held the number 1 position on the Amazon Kindle charts in the USA, UK and Australia, and been listed as Washington Post and Wall Street Journal bestsellers. Translation rights have been sold in 30 countries for more than 70 foreign language editions.
Fiona is a patron of the Birnam Book Festival, Innerpeffray Library, The Teapot Trust and The Little Sherpa Foundation. Through donations from royalties, she's raised £12,000 (and counting) for the global charity Médecins Sans Frontières and The Little Sherpa Foundation. When not writing, she enjoys daily dips in the River Tay and walking in the hills around her home in Dunkeld.
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