Moving In

Northward Bound #2

by Alison Stewart

NORTHWARD BOUND is the entertaining and enlightening account of one English couple’s relocation from the overdeveloped south of Spain to the lush green hills of Asturias. In PART TWO of Alison’s story the valiant couple go on living with Remedios while their new house is being refurbished by a singular builder and his motley crew. Hoping to move in by the end of the year, a stirring series of events – one of them a huge surprise – means that the process goes less smoothly than they’d anticipated.

254 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 23, 2025

About the author

Alison has had nine books published - two books for adults and seven for young people. Four of them have been translated into Italian, Danish, Dutch and Thai.
Her latest project,Cold Stone Soup, an unpublished memoir about growing up under apartheid and migrating to Australia has won the FAW 2013 National Literary Awards (Jim Hamilton Award for a non-fiction manuscript). Cold Stone Soup was also runner-up in the 2010 Penguin/Varuna Scholarship.
Her first book for adults, Born Into the Country (Justified Press 1988, South Africa) was shortlisted for the 1987 AA Mutual Life Vita Young Writers’ Award. Heinemann Australia published her next adult novel, Bitterbloom in 1991. Her YA novel, The Wishing Moon was shortlisted for the 1995 Australian Multicultural Children’s Award and was a 1995 Children’s Book Council Notable book.
Her YA dystopia, Days Like This, published by Penguin Australia was a finalist in the inaugural 2010 Amazon/Penguin Breakthrough Novel Award in the YA category.
Alison lives in Sydney and is married with two adult children. When she gets the chance, she loves travelling - who doesn't? Alison worked for years as a news and feature journalist. She currently writes travel stories.

Reviews

[Mrs Olga A Danes-Volkov · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another good read

I've read this straight after finishing the first book in the series and enjoyed it just as much. Alison Stewart has a great writing style often very amusing. My only objection, and it really is cavilling, is her use of "tittering" and "sniggering" when I'd have preferred "chuckling" but that is me being stupid. No, I thoroughly recommend this book. Bring on the next in the series.

[Carol · Rating 4 out of 5]

Entertaining

This was a fun book to read. The house is finished and there are many things still to be done. The characters in these books are full of surprises...funny and not so funny. This was a low key book to read, I enjoyed it very much.