GIVE ME THE WORLD

by Leila Hadley ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

Getting away from it all- a broken marriage, a public relations job, and some bills dressed by Mr. John and Trigere, and with six year old Kippy in hand, Leila Hadley sailed for Hong Kong, and on to the ""sexual wonderland"" of Bangkok where she met up with four young men and a schooner, the Singapore, and persuaded her passage aboard it. She was to spend almost a year and a half on and off the Singapore with Vic, Hal, Art and the more than casually attractive Yvor; they sailed on to the Nicobar islands and Ceylon, and she went on alone with Kippy to Bombay where she was invited to stay with an Indian, Oxford-educated writer, and where she took tea with Indira Gandhi. Hoping to meet up with the Singapore in Beirut, she reached there via Bagdad and Damascus, waited out their arrival, returned Kippy to New York to his by now anxious father and grandparents, and went on to the Mediterranean and home- to an even greater restlessness until a phone call to California and Ivor took her there and settled her down with a husband.... An unorthodox odyssey, Mrs. Hadley writes with a facile, feminine touch- an attractive curiosity for places and people- as well as a natural enterprise and enthusiasm.

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ISBN: 1580050913

Page Count: -

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1958

Categories: NONFICTION