One More Mountain

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Pub Date 11 Jun 2020 | Archive Date 11 Aug 2020

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Description

One More Mountain is the story of the life changing decision made by Caroline and her husband Allister to put everything they owned into storage, buy some rucksacks, and take a trip around the world for a year.

This is their life story; what happened that inspired them to travel, how they prepared for such a big change in their life, and ultimately what they gained from this wonderful experience. 

Moving back and forth across their life together, this book explores the emotions of facing a future without being able to have children, the impact of cancer on their lives, how they planned for their life changing adventure, and how they spent an incredible year away from everything they knew. 

Caroline and Allister, a couple whose life was turned upside down - twice, overcame their own challenges to enjoy and value every minute of every day. This is an insight into the joy of them embarking on their life together, how it became overshadowed by sad and difficult events, and how moving past these events led to them discovering the excitement of travelling. Whatever mountains stood in their way, happiness could still be found.

One More Mountain is the story of the life changing decision made by Caroline and her husband Allister to put everything they owned into storage, buy some rucksacks, and take a trip around the world...


A Note From the Publisher

Caroline Frost had a career in management and IT, but in 2010 she left work behind to fulfil her dream to travel. She always had a passion for writing but it was travelling that inspired her to write her first book. Caroline now lives in Hampshire with her husband Allister.

Caroline Frost had a career in management and IT, but in 2010 she left work behind to fulfil her dream to travel. She always had a passion for writing but it was travelling that inspired her to write...


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One More Mountain is a great inspirational read! It will make you think that you can accomplish anything!

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I received a free copy of this book from Netgalley in return for an honest review. As someone currently considering doing the same as Caroline and her husband and leaving life behind for a year or so, I was looking forward to reading One More Mountain and finding out more about the experience. There were some good travel tips, and I enjoyed the details about the camping and hiking along the way. Perhaps there could have been more time given to the travel sections - some parts were glossed over a little in favour of the parallel storylines running through the book. I found the 3 timelines a bit difficult to follow to begin with, as I guess I wasn’t paying enough attention to the dates! I wonder if a linear timeline would have worked better for the flow of the book - I think the storyline had enough ups and downs without the need to jump back and forth so much along the way. Having said this, I read the book in a few days and did really enjoy it!

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I had expected this book to be about travel but travel was only a small portion of this novel. I'm a little disappointed but that doesn't mean this was a bad book by any meals. It's more about love, loss, and struggles within marriage and life and just adulthood in general. Though this wasn't what I expected it was still good but I do wish more of an "adult gap year" was talked about! Thanks so much to the publisher and to netgalley for the copy.

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Thank you for advanced copy of the book.

I was drawn to this book by the description and the cover and slightly lost during it as expected it to be just about the travel but the travel aspect is actually the shortest part of the book.
I found myself having to read over some parts as it did as the previous member states move around between the planning, the trip and the treatment of her husband.

I think the author would of have been best to stick to the treatment aspect and done a book purely on that as this part was painfully honest and well written.

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I received a copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This was around 2.5 stars for me.

I thought this book would be about a couple travelling the world, but really there seems to be three parts of the story the author focuses on. The book isn't linear so we jump around from planning for the trip, to the trip its self, to the author's husband being treated for lymphoma, to when the couple first met, back to the trip, and so forth. I found the jumping around rather jarring and hard to keep up with at times.

Honestly there isn't a lot of detail about the trip and the travel portion is probably the smallest part of this book. After six says in Singapore it's approximately one paragraph in the whole book. Similarly, sites around Australia and New Zealand are short compared to anecdotes about the car and camping and other experiences. There are also anecdotes throughout the book that don't seem to contribute to the story or solidify a point, such as a story about birth control and another about house buying that to me read as a thing that happened but not information I need to know to understand this story.

What Frost and her husband went through is painful and terrifying. It is brave to share the story of her husband's treatment and what they went through as a couple. But if you're looking for a story on what it's like to travel the world, this may not be the read for you.

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This book is a love letter from a wife to her husband, reminiscing the entire history and course of their relationship and severe health challenges that struck them without damaging their spirit, love of adventure and optimism. It's fine if you read it as a biography of an ordinary couple to kill time.

It fails as a travel guide, with no details on how to plan your 'gap year' as a thirty/forty-plus middle-income couple leaving jobs and dumping everything to go backpacking and camping around the world for a year, it gives no details on their financials, the actual cost of travel, lodgings/ hotels, the fancy rentals cars,/ vans, places, fees, security, insurance, medications and health risks they must have factored in while making plans or any credit card debt they may have incurred, or anything else (like encountering any issues with renters they left the place to, e.g. leaky faucets and bills!). It's on to France, then Australia, then NewZealand and I am forgetting 2 other places and they are back home by 2013 and that's that.

So if you want to know what to do if you are planning to go see the world while your parents and friends wait for you back home, this book is not for you.

For anyone surviving a major illness and their spouse, it is life-affirming and highly recommended.

Has good and lots of pictures of the couple taken during their one-year travel.

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