Girls Who Travel by Nicole Trilivas
This novel took me back to a time in my life when I did a long few months of travelling. The main characters, Kika Shores, is in her early twenties and returned home to New York a few months back from a yearlong backpacking tour where she travelled to many countries. She also began a romance with an Irish man, Lochlon, while she travelled and has kept in touch with him, hoping to reconnect. She doesn't consider him her boyfriend exactly, but she hasn't engaged in any other relationships since returning home. She found an office job courtesy of connections through her mother, a yoga teacher, but she hasn't put her heart into it, and it shows. When a mistake on her part ends up with the loss of that position, she is at first depressed, not knowing how she'll even be able to earn money to resume travelling.
With very good timing, the connection who got her that job, and who now lives in London, asks if she would take on the job of nanny to their two young daughters, something that Kika had done before she travelled. Kika has fond feelings for the girls, Gwen and Mina, and with the hefy salary being offered, she jumps at the chance to take on the position.
As she finds her way back into the girls' lives, and thinks harder about what she really wants out of life, she also has the opportunity to reconnect with Lochlon, something that she finds herself having mixed feelings about.
Watching Kika be so passionate about what she loves, and try to plan a future that includes more travel was something that awoke strong feelings in me around my past travelling. Seeing her look at making a real plan for her life was lovely. I really liked her relationship with the two girls, and see how she made friends among a variety of people in her new environment was inspiring.
A lovely, uplifting read.
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