Take Me With You: Tales of Long Distance Love

by Sarah Macdonald (Editor)

Share the delirious highs and lows of long distance love with some of Australia's most intrepid romantics. Led by an author whose long-distance love led to much more than a bestselling memoir, join a party of fellow travellers who have scaled the heights and otherwise of love and longing from afar.

Sarah Macdonald ponders if its better to leave or be left and considers abandoning her near perfect life for one of chaos and uncertainty; John Birmingham lusts after an interstate beauty he can no longer afford and who has forgotten him already; Mandy Sayer explains why her marriage needs to be lived in two separate homes; Tom Gleeson plays the love-struck fool in Italy; Kendall Hill delves into a life lost and uncovers a shocking secret on a Greek island; Sarah Darmody travels to Borneo where her childhood love and her new love meet; Emily Ballou falls hopelessly in love with a large lump in the Pacific; Nicholas Hope suffers heart pain bought on by years of living in the dark; while and Valerie Barnes reveals how a United Nations interpreter deciphered the language of love.

Genres: Travel, Biography

288 pages, Paperback

Published December 1, 2005

About the author

Sarah Macdonald (b. 1966) is an Australian journalist, author and radio presenter, and has been associated with several ABC radio programs, including Triple J and Radio National. She is also known for her book Holy Cow! An Indian Adventure.