Ethan Willis is, at 18, a rather confused young person. He has embarked on a mission, a quest if you will, to try to locate his older sister, Charlotte.
She vanished whilst she was journeying through South East Asia.
He loves his sister and admires her for her spontaneous nature, her individualistic attitude and her understanding of the world.
In order to try to find her, he enters the world pf backpack travelling. He follows something. What is it? Perhaps it is a ghost? Might it even be the ghost of his sister, Charlotte?
He sojourns into rural Cambodia, the deepest, most remote parts of Laos and, eventually, to the party islands of Thailand.
By happenstance, he finds her journal and he is able to retrace her journey. Reading the journal rings about flashbacks to their childhood. He thinks deep thoughts abut the nature of existence, about truth, beauty and even the meaning of meaning itself.
He wonders about their relationship and why she might have vanished.
Eventually he learns of a place where Charlotte might., actually, be.
Dare he follow her to that place? would be, really, be ready to meet her, at last?
Who will, actually, be found?
It's an interesting book that takes an existential look at life.
It's published by Matador at £9.99.
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