There She Goes: New travel writing by women

by Esa Aldegheri (Editor), Alice Tarbuck (Contributor), Alison Phipps (Contributor)

There she goes brings together seventeen women writers – of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry – in an anthology of travel tales to inspire, encourage and empower women adventuring through the world in different ways and stages of life.

There she goes celebrates the stories of women getting on with getting from one place to another – the grit, courage and determination of moving through the world with babies, with periods, with grief and loss, with the menopause, with magic and humour, with bodies that are ill or disabled or seen as foreign and Other. These are stories so often shared between women verbally but – despite the drama, excitement and humour they contain– are rarely printed.

This is a book offering a new perspective on what it means to be adventurous. In times where fear and worry seem so prevalent, it is a gift of courage and celebration.

Genres: Essays, Travel, Nonfiction

224 pages, Paperback

Published October 7, 2025

Reviews

[Kathryn Pearson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Favs include 'Dispathes from a road less travelled', 'What is it to stay', 'From Sunday school to Salem, mass', 'Rewriting the hero's journey' and 'Grandma apples'.

[Kelly Blanchard · Rating 5 out of 5]

There She Goes: New travel writing by women, edited by Esa Aldegheri, is a powerful, intimate anthology that reclaims travel writing as something lived, embodied, and deeply human.

What makes this collection resonate is not distance covered or destinations conquered, but the courage required simply to move through the world. The essays and pieces written by women at different stages of life honor experiences so often excluded from traditional travel narratives: traveling with illness, grief, disability, motherhood, aging bodies, and shifting identities.

Contributors such as Alice Tarbuck and Alison Phipps bring emotional clarity and quiet defiance to stories that feel urgent precisely because they are honest. The book reframes adventure not as fearlessness, but as persistence and in doing so, offers readers both solidarity and strength.

There She Goes is less about escape and more about presence. It’s a meaningful contribution to contemporary travel writing and feminist literature, and it deserves to reach readers who are searching for narratives that reflect their lived realities.