Fowler, S: Travelling with Ghosts

  TRAVELING WITH GHOSTS is a beautiful memorial to a great love and a brave survival guide to coming to terms with loss.

On a warm evening on a beautiful beach in Thailand, Shannon Leone Fowler's life was shattered when a box jellyfish - the most venomous animal in the world - wrapped itself around her fiancé Sean's legs, stinging and killing him in minutes. 

 Devastated by the tragedy, Shannon, a marine biologist, could not face returning to her home by the ocean. She had travelled the world with Sean, and to honour his memory set out on a new journey - this time alone, to make sense of her loss.

From contemplating the silence of Auschwitz, to stumbling through poverty-stricken Romania and Bulgaria, to sitting shiva amid daily bombings in Israel, to finding humour and creativity in Sarajevo, a city still scarred by war, Shannon begins to chart a path through grief - learning to live with loss without letting it destroy her.

A rich and absorbing memoir that shows the reader what it feels like to lose your future in a matter of seconds ... Shannon learns to travel on, to get back in the ocean and to build a new life – The Times