Mim and Wiggy's Grand Adventure

Book excerpt: Meet Mim Webster: bored, underchallenged, hapless. A call-centre operative and wife to her childhood sweetheart, Mim’s world is small and staid. That is, until it isn’t. Meet Wiggy: aristocratic, small-minded and out of touch. Accustomed to a life of luxury, his judgemental, bigoted attitudes are at odds with Mim’s working class sensibilities. When these two lost souls seeking closure of different kinds are thrown together at a badly-sung spiritualist church service, they find themselves horrifyingly stuck together. Intent on finding meaning in her tiny life, with or without a dreadful travel buddy, Mim ploughs ahead with her planned journey of a lifetime across Europe, Asia and Australia. After all, travel is the great leveller, right? Can Mim find purpose on the trip of her dreams, while saddled to the travel companion of her nightmares?