[5/10] In the attic you will find a box with your name on it. Inside that box are what you might call ‘waymarkers’ for your life. Isobel is a successful corporate accountant in the City of London. She worked hard to achieve her position and to escape from traumatic memories of her childhood and of her dysfunctional family. Her father’s death, and an unexpected legacy, forces Isobel to confront this past and to embark on a journey to a land of myths and legends.Carrying an ancient Berber amulet w...

The Salt Road is billed as a romance, and it may well be that readers who like romance writing will enjoy the love story set out across two separate timelines in this book. I wouldn't classify The Salt Road as a romance. I don't read romance as a genre. For me it's an adventure, set in an exotic location, painlessly educational, a travelogue... lots of things. I.e. it can be enjoyed on many levels. I'll attribute that enjoyment to the exceptional writing and to the intimate knowledge the author ...

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3.5 Stars- This book was very informative about a culture that I knew nothing about. Plus the setting was extraordinary. I think I have only ever read one other book set in Morocco. The story tells about two different women and their lives. Both women had some extraordinary events happen in their lives and they are tied together with an amulet. The ending also had an incredible twist. There were many elements that I enjoyed but this was a very lengthy book. It is listed as under 400 pages but ea...

The cryptic letter to Isabella from her late father had me intrigued and I was excited about reading further but the story very quickly moved in a different direction to what I was expecting. Desert stories set in Africa (or anywhere in the world) are just not my thing (or so I thought) and it seemed like it was heading to a one star rating but as I continued on, without warning it reeled me in and I was hooked and as the story unfolded it blew my mind. I was spellbound by the exotic setting of ...

A beautifully written story. Set in North Africa, there are two story lines here following two women, which are set about 30 to 40 years apart from each other but they might as well have been set centuries apart. Mariata is a remarkable character creation. Her story is full of passion and strength and explores the relationship between man and nature.Her vivid, personal descriptions bring the desert to life, I’ve infact learned a lot about the North African desert tribes and their culture through...

An astonishing and remarkable adventure! The author wrote this story beautifully as I could truly feel the hot desert sands beneath my feet and see the magnificence of the land through the eyes of her characters. In various chapters throughout the book her words were quite poetic as she captured the lives of its people. As it takes you along their journey you come to know how fate does seem to push us along the many paths that must be taken. A very enjoyable book indeed and highly recommended.

This book does not want to be put into a single category. But if you must, you may file it under mystery, romance, adventure or travelogue.

To me, it's just a great double weave of two stories of two very different characters, set against the same backdrop.

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This novel tells the stories of Isabelle Treslove-Faucet, once a wild tomboy but now a reformed, "grown up" corporate tax accountant, and the circumstances that lead her to travel to Morrocco to uncover her mysterious past, and Mariata, a Tuareg woman and desert wanderer who experiences a host of misfortunes and travails and must make a thousand-mile journey across the Sahara on foot to protect herself and her baby from an unwanted marriage. The two narratives are set about forty years apart in ...

This book has an intriguing title which doesn't give any clues to what the book is going to be about which is why I entered for it on Goodreads First Reads, and when I won and it arrived I saw the cover and I just knew it was going to be a good book. The cover gives the impression of the east, which is where the majority of the book is set. The book starts off by introducing the character Isabelle and her life so far, it is written well and we get to know the traits that Izzy has, and that the...