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Eileen Kay

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Memoir, Travel, Nonfiction

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Eileen Kay is a seasoned solo traveller, long-term ex-pat and author. Previously she was a comedian, a slave in the BBC's film editing dept, and KISS-100 FM radio's traffic presenter Carmen Ghia: "She can make the Hanger Lane Gyratory sound like a deviant sexual act. Put her in charge of all jungles immediately." The Guardian

She fled her native USA, lived in London for 20 years and Scotland for 10, and now splits her time between Thailand and nomadicism. She splits her humour between irony and sarcasm. ...more

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Average rating: 4.04 · 94 ratings · 23 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors
Noodle Trails, A Travel Mem...
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Unbecoming a Lady: The Forgotten Sluts and Shrews Who Shaped America
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My Secret Century in Budapest (Noodle Trails #2)
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“. I want to eat Thailand, starting with the things I can’t pronounce.”
― Eileen Kay, Noodle Trails, A Travel Memoir: Fair Trade, Dung Trade, and Travels in Thailand and beyond
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“I always dreamed of eating my meals out of coconuts. I may have seen too many Jungle Jim movies as a kid perhaps, but there was also that one desert island book which ruined me forever: Island of the Blue Dolphins, a wonderful”
― Eileen Kay, Noodle Trails, A Travel Memoir: Fair Trade, Dung Trade, and Travels in Thailand and beyond
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