Suspected Hippy \u2013 Travelling on a Wire is a debut memoir about a conflicted young woman\u2019s search to find her courage and identity by journeying overland alone as a teenager to India in 1974. After working on a prawn trawler in the Gulf of Carpentaria to finance the trip, the story gets really interesting.<\/p>\n
She writes \u201cIn Malaysia I was arrested as a \u2018suspected hippy\u2019 and thrown in jail.<\/p>\n
In Bangkok I found myself broke had to resort to working as a hostess in a men\u2019s club\/brothel. Some of my adventures
\nincluded sailing on an Indonesian turtle boat and later trekking with a monkey in the Himalayas. In India and Nepal, I experienced love and loss in the most profound way. Although I had little money behind me, I managed to survive by using well-developed instincts that protected and guided me on my journey\u201d.<\/p>\n
Author Frances Griffiths was torn between the love of art and writing stories but became a journalist in the 1980s and has written a wide variety of stories, both fiction and non-fiction, for newspapers and magazines.<\/p>\n
Suspected Hippy \u2013 Travelling on a Wire is her debut creative non-fiction work\/ memoir, based on travelling throughout Asia in 1974\/1975.<\/p>\n
\u201cI did not encounter any young women travelling alone or indeed experiencing some of the things outlined above. Today I meet many young women travelling in my footsteps.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Suspected Hippy book launch is on Saturday October 13, at 4pm Front Beach Caf\u00e9 in Torquay. Phone 0420 355 082 for more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Suspected Hippy \u2013 Travelling on a Wire is a debut memoir about a conflicted young woman\u2019s search to find her courage and identity by journeying overland alone as a teenager to India in 1974. After working on a prawn trawler in the Gulf of Carpentaria to finance the trip, the story gets really interesting. She […]<\/p>\n