Best Foot Forward: A 500-Mile Walk Through Hidden France (ePub)

A touching, true story of English eccentricity, the Texan pioneering spirit, and two women old enough to know better.

"A book to inspire" Good Housekeeping Magazine

When Susie Kelly decides, on a whim, to trek alone across France from La Rochelle to Lake Geneva in Switzerland, she entrusts her French farmhouse full of assorted animals to a total stranger from San Antonio, Texas.

For each of them it is a life-changing experience. Both find their resourcefulness and ingenuity tested to the limit as, in their own ways, they explore and enjoy the culture, cuisine and people of Europe's most fascinating country.

While Susie doggedly tramps 500 miles over unknown terrain, frequently lost and either too hot or too cold, Texan Jennifer Shields copes heroically with lost dogs, erratic electricity, old men hiding in bushes, and a language she cannot speak.

With integrated maps. Follow Susie's exact journey online as you read.

"This is one of the best travel books I have read to date. I thoroughly enjoyed reading every drop of it."  Bas Bleu

I would have never thought I could be so addicted to a book about a woman who decided to walk 500 miles through the French countryside . This book was delightful. Jo-Anne Himmelman

"Susie is ... able to paint a picture with words that makes me feel like I am beside her on her journey. Perfect for the Francophile, the armchair adventurer, and the lover of good literature for this is surely literature." Vine Voice Reviewer

'I was worn out just reading this book - girl you have some courage and I salute you. I defy anyone not to love this book and all her others.' Twiggy 

'I expected to learn, but not to laugh so much. What a great sense of humor Susie has! It makes her writing so endearing! She's down to earth, kind-hearted and insightful. You feel as though you are walking with her.' M D Johns 

'An incredible journey which provided this reader at least with a sense of having travelled with the author through her struggles.' A Common Reader, UK 

'This book is truly a jewel not to be missed.'